You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Support Apple Vision Pro
Thanks for the update, Pedro. I just want to take a moment to appreciate you and the other CMs (I can only imagine how difficult it is to be stuck in the middle and be the unfortunate messengers) and clarify that the following isn't directed at you.
I'm genuinely confused what there is for the dev team to investigate? I'm even more confused and surprised why Vision Pro support needs to be voted as a Dropbox Idea in the first place.
iPadOS apps are, by default, compatible on VisionOS (citation here). It needs to be manually disabled for it to not show up on the native App Store, which means someone took the extra step to intentionally make it unavailable. No one has, even til now, explained why this decision was made. This is why it's frustrating.
I think most, if not all, of us would be understanding if there are some critical on the back-end that need to be worked out. A little strange, considering the initial SDKs have been available since June 2023, but that's okay. We can wait. If the team wants time to work on a native app, that's perfectly fine too. However the optics of the situation aren't being presented this way.
Most AVP users who are taking the time to drop a note in this forum are productivity focused and just want to have the ease of access to their documents, like any other user on any other existing platform. Users want their files to be available on local storage/offline should they need it. Does it matter if it's specially to view USDZ/OBJ files on device? Sure, but that's not everyone who's asking. Users of this device aren't all working on MR projects. There doesn't need to be a profound/unique use case that specially justifies why your user would want the app to exist on this device compared to other devices. The core utility of Dropbox as a service is the same regardless of which industry the user is from, regardless of what sort of device it's being used on. The iPadOS app is an already existing and capable interim solution.
Transparency would be much appreciated moving forward.