Juno, an app designed for watching YouTube on the Imaginative and prescient Professional, has been faraway from the App Retailer, developer Christian Selig mentioned at present. Again in April, YouTube emailed Selig and mentioned that Juno was violating the YouTube Phrases of Service and the YouTube API by modifying the native YouTube.com net consumer interface, and used YouTube logos and iconography that may very well be complicated to clients.
In response, Selig switched from utilizing the embed participant to the web site participant, made it clear that Juno was an unofficial YouTube viewer, and defined to YouTube that as an internet viewer, Juno will not be utilizing YouTube APIs. On the similar time, although, YouTube filed a grievance with the App Retailer, and Selig went on to warn clients that he wouldn’t combat Google on any resolution relating to Juno.
Juno has now been faraway from the App Retailer by Apple in response to YouTube’s grievance. Selig says that he doesn’t agree with the choice as a result of Juno is a straightforward net view and that that modifies CSS to make the participant look extra “visionOS like,” however he doesn’t plan to attraction the choice.
Selig, for these unaware, was the developer of the Reddit app Apollo, and he confronted a public combat with Reddit over its third-party API adjustments and costs final 12 months. The dispute in the end ended up with Apollo shutting down. In response to Selig, Juno was only a enjoyable interest undertaking.
Juno was a enjoyable interest undertaking for me to construct. As a developer I needed to get some expertise constructing for the Imaginative and prescient Professional, and as a consumer I needed a pleasant approach to watch YouTube on this cool new machine. In consequence, I actually loved constructing Juno, but it surely was at all times one thing I noticed as basically a little bit app I constructed for enjoyable.
YouTube doesn’t have a devoted app for the Imaginative and prescient Professional, which is why Selig designed and launched Juno final February. Previous to when the Imaginative and prescient Professional launched, YouTube mentioned that it might not develop a Imaginative and prescient Professional app, nor wouldn’t it enable the YouTube iPad app to run on the headset. With Juno eliminated, those that need to watch YouTube on Imaginative and prescient Professional might want to use Safari.
Juno for YouTube was priced at $4.99, and Selig says that clients who bought the app ought to nonetheless be capable of use it regardless that it has been faraway from the App Retailer.
