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> But such a partnership could thwart Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan to "own the next computational platform for AR, VR and mixed reality," according to the re
by timmg 3y ago
> But such a partnership could thwart Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan to "own the next computational platform for AR, VR and mixed reality," according to the report.
Obviously, this is important to them/him. And it certainly makes sense.
But didn't Zuck's review of the Apple Vision Pro compare it's "closed platform" and Meta's is an "open platform"? I never understood how that aligned with their needs or their actions.
- prasadjoglekar 3y agoOpen for me, not for thee :)
- TulliusCicero 3y agoYou can have an open platform that you're still in charge of. Open source projects still have leadership of some kind. And yeah, Meta's Quest platform is relatively open, at least compared to Apple. Probably wouldn't say it's fully open though.
- cma 3y agoLook at Meta's policy on PWAs on the Quest. Far worse than Apple, they are setting it up to take 30% of PWAs.
- wkat4242 3y agoQuest is open because you can sideload. Apple is not. See the recent article where Apple says they'll block porn apps however they can on vision pro. Not cool, it's a really great tech for people with an open mind. SexTech is a fast growing market and imposing morals on your users isn't a nice thing to do. On quest you can just sideload such apps (though unfortunately sidequest no longer allows them in their store either after they started working with meta). Nevertheless you can still just sideload the APK directly even through sidequest. Which works fine.