Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “lol who needs apps?”.
The Vision Pro has apparently no hot apps pre-orders have started. As of yesterday. We’Ve got our order in. I think it’s delivery is scheduled for late March or April, or something like that, so that either means they’re getting a lot of orders or it means they’re not producing a lot of them. Uh demand is reportedly high enough that it has exceeded available stock in several US cities.
Strangely, attempting to pre-order it online seems to require an iPhone or an iPad with face ID really huh. You know it doesn’t surprise me that much. I have a whole thing that I want to do on how impossible it is to uh cancel Apple arcade from an Apple TV. If I didn’t don’t own an iPad or an iPhone, the only way to cancel a subscript, you cannot do it. On the Apple TV. There is no button, it should be got to be illegal, it should be illegal.
That’S got to be illegal already. You cannot that that like has to be illegal uh. Also, this is a fun one um. I could not find any way to remove my payment information. They scan your face for the cushion people are saying because I am the family plan owner.
So as a family plan owner, I must have a valid credit card unless it like expires. I actually do not see how that could possibly be legal either. They might be able to update your credit card if you get a new one if it expires as well.
Google can do that. I’M pretty sure Apple can do that. No, I just mean I’m. I couldn’t remove it. No, but what I’m saying is, even if the card expires, if you get issued a new one, they might be able to get that number from your bank. Google can do that really yeah, like uh Google pay, I’m fairly.
Certain Apple pay can do this as well. Okay, well Apple, didn’t when my uh card lapsed before do you have Apple pay like tap with your phone and pay? No okay, yeah! I’M pretty sure that system can yeah. No just my Apple arcade subscription lapsed because my card expired and it did not automatically has done that for me, yeah, so Apple pay and Google pay will both update your card with information from your bank, but, like they’ll, have your new card’s information in your phone Before you even receive your new card in the mail chat’s like use privacy, one of your previous sponsors – I want to it’s not in Canada – it’s not in Canada. I really wish it was yeah me too.
It’S a super cool service. I will shill for privacy anytime they’re, not even like, have they even sponsored in a while, not in a while yeah still super cool yeah? I just wish they were in Canada, anyway yeah. So I I want to do a whole thing on it. Where I like live, I go through and I show you guys ay how hard it was to subscribe to it in the first place. Just on my Android phone through a browser was like almost impossible possible and then unsubscribing was literally impossible. It could not be done on the Apple TV could not be done on my phone in a browser could not be done on my computer in a browser I had to download the desktop iTunes application. If, for whatever reason, I did not own a desktop PC, if my only Computing device was an Apple TV, it would be completely impossible to cancel my subscription or because I’m a family manager remove my credit card, because I was like okay screw it I’ll just remove My credit card, I don’t need to buy anything else from Apple and it wouldn’t allow me to do it.
You actually cannot keep my credit card information against my will. That cannot possibly be legal anywh, who the reason for them requiring an iPhone or an iPad with face ID is that they scan your face to make sure the Chris fits better, apparently uh, despite Apple’s claim that most iPad apps can play on The Vision Pro without Any changes it seems the device won’t have access to most top apps from the App Store at launch, including, and this is uh. These are some Heavy Hitters Amazon, Netflix YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Tik Tok according to Mac stories. None of the top 46 apps on the App Store will be available as a native app and just above. A third of them will be available in compatibility mode, meaning that nearly 2third of developers, explicit recently opted out of making their iPad app compatible with the headset YouTube confirmed that it was not allowing its app to be used in compatibility mode did not clarify.
Why and instead suggested that Vision Pro users should access the site through a browser, so discussion question for you. What is the most likely reason that so many companies would actively avoid allowing their apps to be used on a hot new Prestige product honestly, don’t know like? Would you allow float plane in compatibility mode if people are like yeah? I want to try it or would you be worried about a whole bunch of support calls if it doesn’t work right yeah, we are a statistically extremely small team for what we do, though um I feel like a a team like Netflix would be able to handle That what if they just didn’t, give a about the 63 people that are going to be watching Netflix, that’s possible yeah, maybe the um I I I’m surprised they wouldn’t try to buddy with apple more and just do it to make apple happy uh. I don’t think anything makes Apple Happy out than money. I don’t I don’t.
I I’m I’m not convinced that. That’S like really a thing. Okay, I I don’t know, have you seen any evidence of it? No, I have no idea. It seems like their their relationship with app developers is pretty adversarial for the most part.
I just I find that, like a lot of these companies will have apps for like everything you could imagine cuz. They just have like these monstrous Dev teams and they’re, just like yeah we’re going to support every freak TV and every way and all this other type of stuff. I don’t know, maybe we should try it when we get ours, try what float plane app! Oh wait! We don’t have an iPad app.
Okay, then forget it yeah there you go all right, see you later hey. We could maybe get oh he’s like far away now and stuff, but there know I’m not even going to talk about it because I I learned my lesson of of telling people what we’re working on for Flo plane because then they want it like tomorrow. Oh, what is it I don’t know? I don’t even think you know. No, you have to tell me nope I’ll call your boss, I’m not even on shift.
I’Ve been working for 12 hours today, come at me, bro .