We kick things off with Neil’s thoughts on indie app development for Apple Vision Pro. The discussion then turns to why Neil disagree’s with Stratechery’s Ben Thompson’s theory regarding developers being on a Vision Pro / visionOS “strike.” The update concludes with a few broader observations about the Apple developer community, new computing platforms, and not getting caught in developer silos.

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