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YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 10 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Okey, so Apple would have to make client apps to those services by themselfs... Oops! All proprietary.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or, a web browser....

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Baleine@jlai.lu 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What was it called ? Sounds interesting

[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 16 points 10 months 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.

https://www.windowscentral.com/search?searchTerm=Phone+YouTube