YouTube is following in Netflix’s footsteps because it decides to not launch a devoted app for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional’s upcoming launch. Like Netflix subscribers, viewers should go to the online browser model in the event that they wish to watch YouTube movies.

“We’re excited to see Imaginative and prescient Professional launch, and we’re supporting it by making certain YouTube customers have a terrific expertise in Safari,” a YouTube spokesperson stated in an announcement to TechCrunch. The corporate didn’t state its reasoning for opting out. It’s additionally unclear if YouTube plans to help Imaginative and prescient Professional sooner or later.

YouTube is the most well-liked video-sharing platform on this planet, so it’ll be disappointing to clients after they’re pressured to go to Safari to get their YouTube repair. It additionally means they’ll’t entry YouTube’s offline downloads characteristic, which defeats the aim of utilizing the headset on planes. Notably, YouTube gives an app on rival headset Meta Quest.

Netflix confirmed to us yesterday that it isn’t planning on launching a devoted app for the system. The corporate additionally isn’t modifying its iPad model.

Based on MacStories, a slew of different corporations might also be staying away from launching suitable apps, together with Meta-owned platforms Instagram, Fb, Threads and WhatsApp. Nevertheless, this might change by the point Imaginative and prescient Professional launches on February 2. Meta wasn’t instantly accessible to reply to our remark request. Different lacking apps embrace YouTube Music, Roku, Snapchat, DoorDash, Bumble and Lyft, amongst others.

Spotify can also be selecting to not roll out a brand new app, per Bloomberg. The music streaming service isn’t making its iPad app accessible on the Imaginative and prescient Professional retailer both. Spotify instructed us it couldn’t affirm the hypothesis about its app plans for the Imaginative and prescient Professional.

It’s notable, to say the least, that many media corporations are reportedly passing on Apple’s mixed-reality headset. Particularly since all of them have apps for the iPhone and iPad, making it simple for them to launch apps within the Imaginative and prescient Professional retailer. Apple explains that until builders say they don’t wish to take part, their iPad apps within the App Retailer will robotically seem within the Imaginative and prescient Professional retailer by default.

It’s not shocking that builders aren’t keen to help Apple’s newest enterprise, on condition that the tech large just lately up to date its App Retailer guidelines to adjust to a courtroom order, making it in order that Apple will get to approve which apps are eligible to incorporate a hyperlink or button to their web sites. The brand new guidelines embrace many different caveats, together with a 27% payment for out-of-app-store purchases.

Spotify beforehand stated in an announcement that “imposing a 27% payment for transactions made exterior of an app on a developer’s web site is outrageous.” Bloomberg wrote that Spotify seemingly rejecting Apple’s latest system isn’t associated to its public frustrations over the brand new App Retailer guidelines, in line with an individual accustomed to the matter.

There are corporations keen to take part, although. Practically 20 apps will launch leisure experiences on the headset, together with TikTok, Disney+, Max, Discovery+, Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+, Peacock, Pluto TV, Tubi, Fubo, Crunchyroll, ESPN, NBA, MLB, PGA Tour, Pink Bull TV, IMAX and MUBI.