YouTube and Spotify won’t provide standalone apps for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional when the machine launches on February 2, in keeping with a report. The corporate’s first new {hardware} class in almost a decade is scheduled to reach within the US within the coming days, however it can reportedly ship with out assist for 3 of the most well-liked video and audio streaming platforms — YouTube, Spotify, and Netflix. Clients who’ve lively subscriptions may have the ability to watch content material by way of the built-in Safari browser, with sure limitations.
The Alphabet-owned streaming platform informed Bloomberg in a press release on Thursday that the corporate has no plans — for now — to launch a devoted app for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple additionally lets builders enable customers to entry the iPad model of their apps on the combined actuality headset, however this won’t be an possibility for YouTube customers, in keeping with the corporate.
In the meantime, the publication additionally stories that widespread music streaming platform Spotify may even neither provide a standalone streaming app for the Imaginative and prescient Professional, nor will it enable customers to entry the iPad app on the headset, citing an individual accustomed to the matter. With over 600 million customers and 30 p.c market share, the absence of Spotify on the platform is more likely to be felt by Imaginative and prescient Professional house owners.
It’s price noting that each providers might ultimately roll out assist for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, with devoted apps that run on visionOS, the working system designed by Apple to run apps optimised for the combined actuality headset. The businesses might additionally merely provide their current iPad apps, that are commonly up to date, on the Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Till that occurs, customers of each platforms who buy the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional headset, priced at $3,499 (roughly Rs. 2,91,000), should entry YouTube and Spotify by way of the built-in Safari browser. The shortage of standalone apps from these platforms may even imply that customers will not have entry to immersive ‘Environments’ across the content material they’re watching.
When the headset launches within the US on February 2, prospects could have entry to a number of streaming apps and providers, together with Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, ESPN, and Apple TV+. You may learn the total checklist of supported streaming providers right here. Apple additionally introduced that prospects will have the ability to view purchased or rented films in 2D and 3D utilizing the combined actuality headset.
