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Re:Ask HN: Will the Apple Vision Pro only allow app-store apps? by killingtime74 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @05:22PM (#36219287)
Think about it from Apple's perspective. How much does the iPhone app store make for them? How much does software on the Mac make for them? All software that is ever installed on a Mac, what is their cut. What would you do? Of course it's going to be locked down like an iPhone.
Re:Ask HN: Will the Apple Vision Pro only allow app-store apps? by bhyahoo on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @05:58PM (#36219615)
It will be like iPhone.
Re:Ask HN: Will the Apple Vision Pro only allow app-store apps? by menshiki on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @02:21AM (#36223512)
Unless the EU forces Apple to do it differently.
Re:Ask HN: Will the Apple Vision Pro only allow app-store apps? by hayst4ck on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:52AM (#36224475)
The apple device it seems most like is the iPad and likely iPad with sidecar.

The presentation clearly showed that you could use the goggles to display your macbook screen, so in that sense, if you want a screen in 3d space, or maybe even multiple screens in 3d space, you can have a window to whatever your macbook can do.

In the presentation, I believe they showed that they abstracted away the parts of IOS that are common to all systems and built visionOS on top of it, so we are likely to see a locked down IOS like ecosystem.

The flipside is that AR is an unproven technology with no killer apps, so a closed ecosystem and limiting OS api access could stymie innovation that might validate their investment in unproven "future tech."

I think it is plausible that apple might let a steam like service on their platform.

Re:Ask HN: Will the Apple Vision Pro only allow app-store apps? by oliverbusch93 on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:23AM (#36240048)
I think it will be locked down and they will have a very beneficial offer for developers in order to lock them down too. VR/AR doesn't have killer apps yet, developer's ideas will decide who wins the race.