No YouTube, no Netflix, no Spotify.
As a wise man once shrieked, “Developers, developers, developers.” A platform lives and dies according to the quality of its third-party software ecosystem. With this in mind, things are looking grim for Vision Pro, Apple’s imminently launching mixed-reality headset, after it this week emerged that several of the biggest apps for iPhone, Mac, and other Apple devices will not be available for visionOS, at least initially.
YouTube, according to a report Thursday by Bloomberg, will not be building a native app for Vision Pro. Nor will the iPad app run on the headset. Instead, a spokesperson said, YouTube users will be encouraged to use the service through a browser.
Nor does Spotify currently plan to create a visionOS app, or expect its iPad app to run on Apple’s headset. Here too the browser will be your friend… probably. “The music service will still likely work from a web browser,” Bloomberg reports, somewhat less than reassuringly.
