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YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix
(www.bloomberg.com)
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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2024
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Why invest time and money for what will likely be a small user base
There’s a toggle button to allow the iPad versions of their apps to run on visionOS. It would take one person less than four minutes to allow it. Is it an amazing experience on Vision Pro? No, but it would be a good one at least.
My understanding is that it’s the reverse of this. The iPad app is available by default. They’re putting in the (minimal) effort required to proactively disable availability of the iPad app.
Interesting, I’m away from my Mac but I’ll have to check this out later. As I recall, the other platforms were opt-in in AppStore connect.
Nevertheless, I’m sure Netflix has a ton of mobile developers with experience with universal apps, and they know what everyone has already experienced with the cross platform toggle options. You end up still having to code for, plan for, and QA the additional platform. It's never free. There are always issues that show up on the new platform / form factor.