A few days ago it was six months since the Apple Vision Pro came to market, the revolutionary device that Apple introduced last June during WWDC 2024, and which generated both interest and doubt practically from the first moment. And yes, those from Cupertino knew how to take what has been on the market for years and reinvent it to offer the viewer what they call a spatial computer that cannot be denied innovation or audacity.

Many doubts that arose from the first moment were associated with a price starting at $3,499and this could increase substantially depending on the needs of each user. Then the first reviews told us about its positive points, yes, but also the negative ones. But even before that happened, another problem began to emerge, namely that a month and a half after its announcement, Apple Vision Pro was not attracting the key group for its commercial success or failure: developers.

During the inaugural WWDC 2024 conference, Apple showed the major new features of visionOS 2 and also announced the arrival of Apple Vision Pro in eight new markets, three of them on June 28 and another five next Monday, July 15. Acceleration of international expansion plans, probably motivated by a significant drop in viewer interest after the first weeks of being on the market.

Cupertino’s space computer has a problem, a major problem, and it’s been going on for about a year after we first pointed it out, and that Launching new apps for Apple Vision Pro has been drastically reduced, as we can read in Ars Technica. As evidence of this, Apple recently stated that there are already just over 2,000 apps for the device. For comparison, in a similar period on the market with the first iPad, it already had around 20 thousand. And even though it was a much newer market, the iOS App Store already had around 10,000 apps the same year it launched.

Those from Cupertino, as I mentioned earlier, accelerated the arrival of the Apple Vision Pro to other markets and, as we told you a few weeks ago, they also suspended plans for the second generation, which will focus on the development of a “cheap” version » that can attract more users. But the problem is that even with the cheaper version, if the ecosystem of applications is severely limited, the usefulness of the device falls far short of its potential. So, and although the plan for a “cheap” version seems quite correct to me, Apple would have to combine this with very active measures to get developers interested in the platform.