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Agreed, Apple has yet to prove why companies need to support their niche luxury platform. I guarantee the best Vision Pro experience will be exclusive to their

Agreed, Apple has yet to prove why companies need to support their niche luxury platform. I guarantee the best Vision Pro experience will be exclusive to their own apps and nearly everything third party will be second class at best. If they can’t make their device effortlessly seamless with existing apps, it’ll be a total failure.

Someone 3y ago
> I guarantee the best Vision Pro experience will be exclusive to their own apps Apple must know they need third party apps at launch and that those apps have to be good, so I expect they’ve worked with/pampered quite a few companies in the last year, helping them build a good Vision Pro app. Because of that, I expect to see more third-party apps than Apple ones at launch, and I expect all of them to be good or at least very impressive to demo. > and nearly everything third party will be second class at best. If we interpret “nearly everything” as “the overwhelming majority”: that is the case on any App Store, so that’s not surprising.
- pipeline_peak 3y ago
  What’s in it for these developers to support such an unpopular platform, where’s the money?
  - Someone 3y ago
    Firstly, Apple’s help may have made it fairly cheap for them to create their app. Secondly, I guess some CEOs will fall for the status/prestige or for “if the neighbors have it, so must we” and for now, care less for the money. Thirdly, there almost certainly will be few customers, but all buyers will be rich, even for iPhone users, and quite a few likely will be decision makers. If, say, Zoom has a good Vision experience, but MS Teams doesn’t, and that swings a CEO of a large company to switch to Zoom, that’s worth a lot of money for Zoom. So, even if you’re completely rational and think it isn’t worth it, your fear that having a Vision app out will make some other CEO make the irrational decision that, therefore, your smartphone app is better, may be enough to make you decide to invest in a Vision app.
- p_l 3y ago
  Or they might try to launch it iOS style, provide stunted 3rd party experience, only first party full apps, and try to launch a 3rd party more complete support later.

Someone 3y ago

> I guarantee the best Vision Pro experience will be exclusive to their own apps Apple must know they need third party apps at launch and that those apps have to be good, so I expect they’ve worked with/pampered quite a few companies in the last year, helping them build a good Vision Pro app. Because of that, I expect to see more third-party apps than Apple ones at launch, and I expect all of them to be good or at least very impressive to demo. > and nearly everything third party will be second class at best. If we interpret “nearly everything” as “the overwhelming majority”: that is the case on any App Store, so that’s not surprising.

pipeline_peak 3y ago
What’s in it for these developers to support such an unpopular platform, where’s the money?
- Someone 3y ago
  Firstly, Apple’s help may have made it fairly cheap for them to create their app. Secondly, I guess some CEOs will fall for the status/prestige or for “if the neighbors have it, so must we” and for now, care less for the money. Thirdly, there almost certainly will be few customers, but all buyers will be rich, even for iPhone users, and quite a few likely will be decision makers. If, say, Zoom has a good Vision experience, but MS Teams doesn’t, and that swings a CEO of a large company to switch to Zoom, that’s worth a lot of money for Zoom. So, even if you’re completely rational and think it isn’t worth it, your fear that having a Vision app out will make some other CEO make the irrational decision that, therefore, your smartphone app is better, may be enough to make you decide to invest in a Vision app.
p_l 3y ago
Or they might try to launch it iOS style, provide stunted 3rd party experience, only first party full apps, and try to launch a 3rd party more complete support later.