While Apple shows off movies and games on Apple Vision Pro, productivity app developers are making sure you’ll be able to do serious work with it too. Here are some of the stand-outs so far.
While Apple shows off movies and games on Apple Vision Pro, productivity app developers are making sure you’ll be able to do serious work with it too. Here are some of the stand-outs so far.
If you were surprised by Apple’s release date for the Vision Pro, you had reason to. Traditionally, the company will promise a release for, say, winter, and it’ll come out on December 22.
That actually is the official start of winter, though, so there is also an argument that Apple is very, very literal about its release dates. Either way, when it said « early 2024 » for the Apple Vision Pro, there were more than a few shrugs from people assuming that meant June.
Perhaps that may have been helped by the Vision Pro operating system. « There’s still a lot of work to do on the operating system and presentation, » said AppleInsider in its exclusive hands-on back in August 2023.
And with the OS still being worked on, it follows that app developers could only go so far with their work. While no developer would comment on the record about when Apple told them the final release date, all of them at least implied that they’d had no early notice.
What was different was that some developers interpreted Apple’s « early 2024 » correctly — and others did not.
So there are going to be some apps ready for day one, and many more that are not. Apple has only opened the Vision Pro App Store for submissions since revealing the launch date, so its review team is also going to be busy.
Productivity apps will be there and will be key
No one is going to put on a Vision Pro headset and choose Slack as their first app — but they could. The communications app Slack is going to be one of the productivity apps on Vision Pro from the start.
Or they could take their exciting new device and settle in for another Cisco Webex video conference. If they’re not a Webex user, though, they will be able to use Zoom instead.
Lesser-known — but respected in their field — apps such as JigSpace will also be on Vision Pro. JigSpace is a presentation app that’s similar in principle to Apple’s Keynote, but it’s really a tool specifically for having 3D presentations
JigSpace and Numbers will be joined by Microsoft PowerPoint, too, though it’s not clear whether that will be on day one.
