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Two Years Later, YouTube is Finally Available on Apple Vision Pro

Lauren Forristal, TechCrunch:

After two years of initial hesitation, YouTube has finally unveiled its dedicated app for the Apple Vision Pro.

Seventeen people: Yay.

When Apple’s headset first launched, YouTube opted for a web-based approach instead of developing a dedicated app, directing viewers to use Safari to access content.

It’s been an embarrassment on both sides: for Apple, which couldn’t muster sufficient enthusiasm for its first new platform in a decade; and for Google, which actively opted out of allowing its iPad app on the Vision Pro two years ago—and then blocked third-party apps hoping to fill the void.

Fortunately, per Samuel Axon at Ars Technica:

It’s not just a port of the iPad app, either—it has panels arranged spatially in front of the user as you’d expect, and it supports 3D videos, as well as 360- and 180-degree ones.

I should hope so. It would have been an even greater insult if all Google did after two years was to recheck that App Store box.

While I haven’t yet fired it up on my Apple Vision Pro (it needs to be charged, lol), I’ll give this release a qualified finally.

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