Apple Vision Pro Devices Dominated By Paid Apps

Vision Pro has a lot of paid apps (photo: dock. Apple)

JAKARTA - Apple presents hundreds of applications on Vision Pro, a device with spatial computer technology. By combining original and absorption applications from the iPad, this device has 692 applications.

Vision Pro presents great potential for application developers to make money. However, this device also provides quite a difficult challenge because the majority of applications on Vision Pro are paid applications.

Based on Appfigures data, technology analysis platforms, 52 percent of the original Vision applications have to pay when they want to download. However, of the 35 percent of applications that don't require download fees, 13 percent of them need to subscribe.

Meanwhile, 17 percent of iPad or iPhone absorption applications require payment before download. This figure is not as much as the original app on visionOS, but 58 percent of apps rely more on monetization via subscription systems.

Appfigures analysis shows that developers must compete with each other to attract customers who use Vision Pro. However, they are not necessarily profitable because many people don't like upfront payments.

From the user side, the large number of paid applications is bad news. This spatial computer technology is priced at IDR 55 million. Given the price is not cheap, some users may consider paid applications as a burden.

In the past, the App Store on iPhone and iPad had similar problems. Many applications that cost upfront or subscribe. The number of applications is slowly decreasing so that it is hoped that something similar can happen on Vision Pro devices.