Comment on YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix

smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah MS tried this with youtube. But got shut down fast

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  • Baleine@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What was it called ? Sounds interesting

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    • fhqwgads@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Windows phone. Originally Microsoft put out a number of apps as web wrappers, but the mobile YouTube site kind of awful. So Microsoft wrote a YouTube app of their own that was actually kind of great and allowed you to download videos and play audio in the background and basically actually work right. Google threw a fit and basically made Microsoft delete the app.

      Windows central still has a bunch of articles from the time up.

      www.windowscentral.com/search?searchTerm=Phone+Yo…

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      • dist0rt3d@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I still miss early Windows Phone. Looking at what Windows desktop has evolved into though, I’m not sure what kind of monster Windows Phone might have turned into if it were still around.

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• Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or, a web browser…

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  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or iOS compatibility. But every layer of software stack is making every app less capable for hardware specific functions.

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