YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix

Re:YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, j... by beastman82 on Thursday January 18, 2024 @07:00PM (#39049784)

Seems? That is exactly the point of an advertising company's product.

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Re:YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, j... by astrange on Thursday January 18, 2024 @07:04PM (#39049820)

YouTube sells ad-free access for $14 a month. It's as easy to avoid as can be.

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Re:YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, j... by olyjohn on Thursday January 18, 2024 @07:59PM (#39050297)

For now. I guarantee they will start putting ads in your premium membership plan. It's already happening in other services. They will do it using the boiling frog method. There is no way they will pass up a chance to make even more money. This is not a slippery slope argument either, this is what has happened over and over throughout history.

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Re:YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, j... by catketch on Thursday January 18, 2024 @07:17PM (#39049926)

Even easier: Brave Browser. ad-free YouTube for $0/month

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Re:YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, j... by kergonath on Thursday January 18, 2024 @07:05PM (#39049831)

Well, at some point they pretended to care about user experience. They could not have got their user base if they were that user hostile from the beginning.

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Re:YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, j... by andsoitis on Thursday January 18, 2024 @08:20PM (#39050456)

> YouTube began running in-video ads in August 2007, with preroll ads introduced in 2008.

Google bought YouTube in 2006.

YouTube began running in-video ads in August 2007, with preroll ads introduced in 2008.

User and usage growth since introduction of ads in 2097/2008 suggests your assertion is not correct.

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