If you use Spotify, YouTube, or Netflix on a regular basis, and you’re thinking about spending a fortune on the upcoming Vision Pro, you may want to think twice as none of those services will provide an app that’s optimized for Vision Pro. You’ll still be out of luck because even neither of them will allow Vision Pro to run the iPadOS version of their apps.
Do you remember when Apple introduced the original iPhone in January 2007, the company announced that YouTube would be coming to the iPhone as a built-in app? History repeated itself when Apple introduced the iPad in January 2010, which brought the same iOS experience to the larger screen, and the built-in YouTube app made its way to that device when it first came out too.
Nowadays, Apple lets developers decide whether to allow iPad versions of their apps to run on either a Mac or a Vision Pro; therefore, it’s ultimately up to the developers. Now Google has decided to not take that route with its YouTube service. As there’s no native app for the Vision Pro or for the Mac, if you want to stream Netflix shows or movies on Vision Pro, then you’ll have to go to the Safari web browser to watch them. Spotify won’t have a native app for Vision Pro either, but at least Vision Pro has the built-in Music app that allows you to use Apple Music, so that’s one reason to go with Apple Music over Spotify. Nonetheless, there are several streaming services like Disney+, Max, and Apple TV+ that will be available to run natively on Vision Pro.
Vision Pro, powered by the M2 and R1 chips, will start at $3,499 with 256GB of storage and 16GB of unified memory. Pre-orders will start on Friday, January 19 at 5 a.m. PST. Availability will start on Friday, February 2.
