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Apple announces there are over 1,000 dedicated apps for Vision Pro (www.gsmarena.com)
submitted 9 months ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
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Apple announced there are now over 1,000 apps, designed specifically for Vision Pro. The announcement came from Greg Joswiak, Senior VP of Marketing at Apple, who also added there are over 1.5 million compatible apps for the headset.

The apps are available in a dedicated visionOS App Store, and there have been over 600 available since day one, which was 12 days ago. Some key platforms like Netflix, YouTube, and Spotify said they will not develop a dedicated app, though, and users have to use the services through the Safari browser.

The Google-owned video service later changed its stance and revealed a Vision Pro app is “on the roadmap”. Some say YouTube did a full 180 after seeing the success of the headset, but there is also a chance of missed royalties after a third-party app is already gaining track, and users are paying $5 for it.

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[-] bagfatnick@kulupu.duckdns.org 20 points 9 months ago

Interestingly the $/£5 YouTube app being referenced in the article was whipped up by Christian, the dev of Apollo for Reddit. A post on his website details how’s he managed to get a relatively custom UI and video player using what appears to be browser extensions and the YouTube public API.

[-] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 3 points 9 months ago

Wow, glad Christian is still rocking it.

Typing this on Mlem which was and is directly inspired by Apollo.

[-] SteefLem@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

In the future somewhere when these things arent bigger then sunglasses, and same price, then i will consider one

[-] DoctorSpocktopus@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago

I don’t see these ever getting cheaper than a smartphone, and probably a flagship smartphone at that. I think it will be a major blocker for adoption outside of niche contexts and tech bros’ homes.

[-] aarRJaay@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

How many of these are productivity rather the 'content consumption'. I doubt people will actually get any work done on it. Sure, you can mirror your screen and work on a mountain-top, but that's not much of a use-case and would get old quick.

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

If you were able to use multiple monitors it might make a compelling argument towards productivity

[-] assplode@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

No sex tho

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

lol do you need an app labeled "porn"?

You can play whatever content you want.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

Interestingly, I checked the App Store last night to see if anything new and interesting was there and found one app that I hadn't seen previously. I didn't check sports apps or a couple of other categories. If there's over 1k built for AVP (rather than iPad apps that are allowed to run on it), they're hiding them well.

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