Netflix Co-CEO Calls Vision Pro 'Subscale' and Wonders if Anybody Would Actually Use It
Netflix Co-CEO Calls Vision Pro 'Subscale' and Wonders if Anybody Would Actually Use It
Netflix exec Greg Peters explained why they won't have a Vision Pro app, saying he doesn't know if Apple's headset will end up ‘yielding a return.’
Use? Sure!
Buy? No.
That‘s a bit misleading… They said the Userbase isn’t yet high enough for them to put in effort to make it available. That might change.
Why they went out of their way to make the iPad App unavailable, that I do not know. They might have wanted a different user experience and decided to disable it till they have time to persue that idea 🤷♂️
Give it a year or two when the Vision userbase grew and we‘ll see what happens.
What a surprise, media posts an article with a misleading title to bait emotional clicks from both fans and haters.
I’m so fucking sick of modern “journalism”
I don’t know any Netflix devs but I’ve spoken with devs of other apps that had to disallow iPad apps running in compatibility mode on macs because the iPad apps were very buggy as Mac apps. This isn’t true for all iPad apps but you have to make sure your app will run well before enabling compatibility mode.
I also follow a dev on mastodon (I think it’s the guy behind the Channels app) who made an interesting observation. He makes the case that it’s actually Apple TV apps that should run on AVP, not iPad apps.
It is going to be a slow rollout. It might take years to build a substantial user base. Apple will need to bring the price down to iPhone territory.
Edit: if I was Netflix I would still put a small team on making a proper app. I believe apple will persist in this market until it works.
That graphic was butcher with criminal intent goddamn
Netflix finally trying to make smart business decision? Shocked. I know it's not optimal but couldn't someone use a browser and make it full screen?
One of the more obvious use cases for the Apple Vision Pro is watching videos on a plane, which means you need to be able to download to the app first to watch offline. Netflix's iPad app already works perfectly fine on Apple Vision Pro so supporting it required literally no effort at all. They went out of their way to disable availability.
Sounds like Netflix is jockeying to shake down Apple for some dev money.