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Netflix Won't Offer Apple Vision Pro App at Launch
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There been people that wear gamers pseudo multi-ch audio headphones that might like this. But then with the AVP its only spatial stereo I believe.
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I think by not making something for Apple Vision right now for Netflix is a good business move. Super small market and a low ball number for Netflix is 3-4 million to that type of project. Engineering time is far from cheap and they would easily burn through that much money. I would guess they would need up to 10 vision kits for the dev team for development and testing.
It just not worth that type of money right now.
Netflix is the only streamer I always keep in rotation. I don’t understand all the Netflix hate. When it comes to content, they are a firehose. A lot of their content is awful, but a lot of it is great. I love international content and no one beats Netflix in that department. Anyway, I’m with you. I think Netflix is great. Offers the most bang for the buck compared to other streamers.
As far as AVP support, this is hardly surprising. Netflix has never fully embraced the Apple ecosystem. Until their subscribers demand AVP support, they’ll wait. I mean, based on this forum, I’m pretty sure no AVP buyers subscribe to Netflix anyway!
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To give some perspective. Apple “says” it is easy but it is only easy if you don’t do anything custom and limit yourself to only Apple design elements and do everything the Apple way only. Something almost no one does and even more so the bigger the companies get.
The other thing you run into is testing time and full testing. I can promise you that something is always found on those test that is broken and then is a huge pain to fix or debug. Also often times those ported apps don’t look that great. It just doesn’t have the right feel and no one is happy. It then gets negative reviews over it. Easiest way to prevent this is say no to it. Said app was design for a different device and its UX is for that other device.
I have been bit by Apple “easy” more than once and the amount of time to fix it was not anywhere close to Apple’s estimates.
So no not always easy and safe route is blocking it until the resources are available to test and fix any issues along with considering updating the UX for that different device.
Hmmmmm... well since every Netflix price hike (or no sharing subscriptions, etc) article quickly fills with 400-500+ passionate posts about dropping them immediately, is this basically a tree falling in the forest non-event?
No, but you know what did work for me-- going from a continuous Netflix subscription to periodically turning my sub on and off during the year. Since Netflix tends to put all episodes of a series up at once, binging works great. It is VERY easy to suspend your sub for a few months. And when you come back, all your data is still there.
The 3 companies you described are equally hated by Apple.
- Netflix: won’t integrate with Apple TV, incessant price hikes w/ subpar quality content
- Spotify: won’t pay artists, whines it pays Apple too much (while being unable to turn a profit)
- Meta: over-encroaching data collection from its users
Try again.
There's a Netflix app for the Meta Quests and it puts you in a log cabin in the mountains with a fireplace and the movie is played on a big screen projector. It's actually kind of neat. But I guess it's not really a game changer or anything so if one really wanted they can just go to Netflix through Safari.
I wonder if the experience on the Vision is better than watching stuff on the quest 3. It’s not very pleasant as it’s like watching a movie in a theatre whilst wearing a pair of diving goggles which is pretty distracting. Also, pass through mode on the quest 3 is fuzzy af and the world bends in quite a sickening way to the left and right of you, especially when anything gets too close. Proper puke time.
Of course they won't. They have nothing but absolute contempt for their customer base, and they continue to showcase it. Their refusal to simply allow their content to sync with the Apple TV app is the pinnacle of utter indifference to the user experience and providing value. Its absurdly petty, as all it does is keep people from being directed back to the content they are watching on Netflix.
They can kick rocks. The feeling is mutual.
They can kick rocks. The feeling is mutual.
I'm not sure why people keep bringing up the 2 hr battery life when it comes to movies. Most likely, if you're watching a movie, you'll be near an electrical outlet. Which means you can just plug it in. You could argue that that isn't ideal... but if you're watching a movie, you're not going to be moving around. Also, 2 hours is the same as most other VR headsets. There are plenty of other things about the AVP to take a jab at other than its industry standard battery life.
Why would you want to watch Netflix on Vision Pro? Don't we have huge 4K televisions for that?
But, of course, this could become one of those "why on earth would I need a mobile phone?!" thingies...
But, of course, this could become one of those "why on earth would I need a mobile phone?!" thingies...
It literally isn't but people make such a big deal out of it. Especially since most people are stationary when watching media anyway.
And 2.5 hours is pretty much the norm for standalone headsets. And by comparison PCVR headsets are always plugged in to a PC that's likely also stationary anyway.
Is the low battery life disappointing? Sure. Specially for an external battery. But it's also expected for the product category.
Imagine you owned a company that spent $18 billion a year creating original content for your viewers, and Apple wants to take 30% of your revenue just for supplying the device your customers are viewing it on. You think Netflix are getting customers because of Apple, or is it the other way around?
To be fair, it’s understandable they don’t immediately jump on any new platform, hype or technology. That’s not workable.
This would attract close to zero new customers while being very expensive to develop a new app for a new environment no one has any experience with. Not to mention switching all their content to 3D.
This would attract close to zero new customers while being very expensive to develop a new app for a new environment no one has any experience with. Not to mention switching all their content to 3D.