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Likely because the Vision SDK is going to be buggy in the beginning and they don't want to deal with the crash reports, support tickets etc. As well as all of their telemetry and product analytics data being messed up with people using their products in weird ways.

If I was any of those companies I wouldn't bother either.

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Not likely. Large companies do not make these sorts of decisions based on fear of bugs. They make them based on revenue, strategic advantage, etc.

Can you imagine any hard-charging SV CEO saying "actually it might be a bit buggy or muck up our analytics data, best leave it for now folks, enjoy your weekend, take it easy"

Large companies do not have the CEO getting involved in Product decisions like which platforms to develop for or the various downstream implications of those decisions.

It's left up to Product Managers who very much do care about whether their analytics data is messed up given that it is often used to evaluate their performance.

> Large companies do not have the CEO getting involved in Product decisions like which platforms to develop for

My sweet summer child, the relationship between Apple and Netflix/Google is entirely determined by their respective platform Bizdev teams + executive relationships. Product happens after the business terms are hashed out.

I don’t think the SDK is necessary for an iPad app to run unmodified on Vision, only if you want to specialize for the environment. However, I can see them maybe actively disabling their apps until they can test them, or perhaps they were buggy but didn’t think it was worth fixing given the limited user base.

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