Joe Cieplinski
My short review of the YouTube app on visionOS: It’s polished and perfectly nice. Hope they add some of the obvious missing features. But even if they don’t, I’m still very glad to have it.
The number one thing they got right: not assuming I automatically want to be immmersed in whatever I’m watching. Just play the video and let me throw it in a corner somewhere. I have environments if I want to go distraction free and watch something deep. YouTube isn’t always about deep.
And to the rest of you who are completely ignoring the platform: it’s really not hard to make your modern SwiftUI or UiKit based app native on visionOS. I’ve shipped three apps in the past year alone with maybe a few days worth of extra work for each.
No, it’s not going to make you a ton more money. But you aren’t making indie apps for money anyway, right? You are crafting the best experiences. And iPad apps on visionOS, while wonderful to have, are not the best possible experiences.
I get most Apple nerds have written off Vision Pro, because they either never bought one or never use the one they bought.
But from one of the few who uses mine almost daily, let me just say, “Thanks, Google. And the whole YouTube team.” This is much appreciated.
Text is cheap. Image generation costs real tokens. That’s your order of magnitude, I’m thinking.
All those power plants they want to build in space? That’s for video. We don’t need much more power for text than we already have.
Editors get paid good money for a reason.
“Unedited” is another word for lazy.
Only someone who has little to no respect for their audience would present anything unedited.
