As Apple prepares to make Apple Vision Pro generally available, developers are coming to terms with some interesting decisions that will strengthen Apple’s ecosystem.
XCode 15.2 runs on Intel-powered Macs, but requires additional SDKs to develop for Apple Vision Pro Developers must run macOS on Apple Silicon.
This isn’t all that surprising. Apple will no longer sell new Intel-based Mac machines, and Apple Silicon made its debut in late 2020. Developers may update hardware frequently. Apple had been hinting that an ARM-based Apple Silicon would be coming long before his release in late 2020, and many have been eagerly awaiting this new technology.
Many of its new technologies are shared across the Apple platform and the various hardware elements that make it up. There’s the Apple Silicon that powers the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, various Macs, and now the Vision Pro. Form factor aside, at the silicon level there is common hardware, common software, and standard programming interfaces and tools.
it’s natural That means Apple Silicon is the only option for developers working on Apple Vision Pro. And if that means selling a few more Macs in a year when sales aren’t expected to spike, that’s how Apple’s ecosystem works.
If there is only one game in town, it should be played in its yard.
The garden has another powerful element. Apple can reset the conversation by smartly applying style guides. Developers should use the term spatial computing Instead of the more recognizable AR, VR and Augmented Reality taglines that are well known to the general public. Given that all third-party apps must explicitly get permission from Apple’s App Store team, it’s a clean break from existing VR and AR headsets and the associated issues bundled with their names. An engineered escape will take place.
Apple Vision Pro will be released Released in limited areas on February 2nd.
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