<story><title>YouTube and Spotify won&apos;t launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/youtube-and-spotify-join-netflix-in-not-launching-apple-vision-pro-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>By why not let Vision Pro users install the iPad versions of their apps? They&amp;#x27;re explicitly opting out of that!</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Considering most of these companies are in the middle of budget cuts and layoffs (including specifically in the YouTube division), it should be obvious that they aren’t going to be rushing to staff up teams to build an app for an untested device that will probably be in the hands of a few thousand people at launch. “Wait and see” is the best approach right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gmerc</author><text>As someone who worked on platform and partnership in big tech:&lt;p&gt;Because they smell leverage. Vision Pro adoption has to be subsidized by Apple, there’s no demand. To bootstrap demand popular apps with users need to be available. They have no risk of losing customers to a competitor by not shipping this.&lt;p&gt;So they are building negotiation ammo for a bit for the next round of conversations over platform fees, app review processes, etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube and Spotify won&apos;t launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/youtube-and-spotify-join-netflix-in-not-launching-apple-vision-pro-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>By why not let Vision Pro users install the iPad versions of their apps? They&amp;#x27;re explicitly opting out of that!</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Considering most of these companies are in the middle of budget cuts and layoffs (including specifically in the YouTube division), it should be obvious that they aren’t going to be rushing to staff up teams to build an app for an untested device that will probably be in the hands of a few thousand people at launch. “Wait and see” is the best approach right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>I assume because they haven’t been able to fully test them yet. Better to offer no app than a broken one.</text></comment>