Illustrator: Support for Apple Vision Pro

This is an M2 Pro device. My wife upgraded to an M3 MacBook Pro and, for the same price, I opted for the M2 Vision Pro. Similar specs, with the Vision Pro being sold as a "Spatial Computer" that could run iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS apps, all on one device (just a simple opt-in for developers!). Half a year later, Adobe hasn't flicked the bit to let their apps exist on this expensive computer, verses that expensive computer. This is Adobe's game to lose, and they're fumbling the ball in the first quarter.

Adobe uses a ton of custom libraries for UIs and the actual program functions and they may simply require to be adapted for genuine technical reasons or just to pass Apple certification. Just getting the activation system to work on a device that is already heavily locked down could be a pain. Outside that it's really one of those "0.0001 percent of users" questions. It's apparently not the answer you like to hear, but any company has to ask themselves whether it's worth to invest the resources just to cater for a tiny fraction of the potential crowd. And let's be real - until the Vision Pro has been launched in huge markets like Japan, Europe, China and so on a lot of people and companies aren't going to bother. Small developers will wait until they have the money, big companies will evaluate how it affects their development cycles and pretty much everyone will try to avoid getting entangled in Apple's atrocious and restrictive development and certification rules for as long as they can.

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I'm not an Adobe employee, so I can't speak for their intentions. But a lot of mainstream content consumption apps aren't even available for the Apple Vision Pro headset at this time. There are good reasons for this. The new headset is a version 1.0 release. It is very expensive. A well-equipped Vision Pro headset plus the $200 case tips the scales at $4000 (before sales tax). That is a lot of money for what is essentially a high end niche product for an "enthusiast" crowd.

Then there is the issue of the headset appearing to be something that is used for fun, be it playing games, watching movies/videos or just casual leisure computing. It doesn't appear to be a product marketed for doing work. Adobe's creative applications are primarily for doing work. There is some obvious potential with a headset like the Vision Pro for creative tasks, such as 3D modeling. Then again, how powerful is the computing hardware in this headset? It doesn't look like something that can contain beast-level performance of a desktop tower computer. In resource intensive work situations, such as 3D modeling and rendering, the headset might need to work in a more passive manner, simply displaying what a more powerful desktop computer is rendering on the fly.

If the price of the headset drops and the customer install base grows that will help increase the demand for Adobe apps to be designed for the Vision Pro headset. For the time being there is a lot of details that need to be worked out.