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And that’s the big dead on arrival red flag. There’s already some ecosystem for VR/AR, specially in games. But Apple is not compatible with non of that. If people could buy a VisionPro and instantly use the software they already own and have been using for a few years but with better hardware and a better experience, the story would be different and this would be a runaway success. But this is one of the cases where the walled garden and overall hostility towards developers from Apple will bite them in the ass. A few massive players have straight up refused to port their software for the Vision Pro, and hardware platforms live and die on their supported software. This is one where Apple can’t carry the whole burden of development since they are already bogged on keeping up with coming up with an entirely new OS and an entirely new UX. If they don’t open the garden and let help in, the Vision Pro will forever be a curious toy, not the productivity machine they want it to be.

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IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

If they don’t open the garden and let help in

What does that look like to you? I’m not sure what it is you want Apple to do.

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- dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t give a fuck about what Apple does. Their actions and decisions are inconsequential to me personally.
  
  But, entertaining the questions, they could’ve reach out to the developers of the most popular VR apps and games to entice them to port as soon as possible. The only similar thing I’ve heard was a small indie that made like a YouTube frontend, or something (IDK). And that was not on a Dev kit but on a emulator. Which has gigantic limitations. They could also allow devs broader access to the system, like allowing sideloading, kernel level modules, open source some part of the OS to allow people to understand how it works, tinker with and innovate over the possibilities that the hardware brings.
  
  All those are things that Apple will never do though. And as a result, their hardware platform won’t be the bed of innovation they want it to be. Right now the vision pro has no killer app or must have feature. You can’t build the future by forbidding everyone from building unless they pay you out of the nose just to even see the building site.
  
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