Popular Third-Party YouTube App for Vision Pro Pulled From App Store (macrumors.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/02/168227/popular-third-party-youtube-app-for-vision-pro-pulled-from-app-store
- Source link: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/01/juno-vision-pro-removed-app-store/
> Back in April, YouTube emailed Selig and said that Juno was violating the YouTube Terms of Service and the YouTube API by modifying the native YouTube.com web user interface, and used YouTube trademarks and iconography that could be confusing to customers.
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> In response, Selig switched from using the embed player to the website player, made it clear that Juno was an unofficial YouTube viewer, and explained to YouTube that as a web viewer, Juno is not using YouTube APIs. At the same time, though, YouTube filed a complaint with the App Store, and Selig went on to warn customers that he would not fight Google on any decision regarding Juno. Juno has now been removed from the App Store by Apple in response to YouTube's complaint. Selig says that he does not agree with the decision because Juno is a simple web view and that that modifies CSS to make the player look more "visionOS like," but he does not plan to appeal the decision.
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/01/juno-vision-pro-removed-app-store/
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
COULDN'T care less, once and for all, please just get it right you nutsacks.
Re: confusing to customers.... (Score:2)
So you are saying the customers do care to at least some degree?
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> So you are saying the customers do care to at least some degree?
They're probably [1]an American [youtube.com].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
did this happen with Blackberry years ago? (Score:2)
I have a dim memory that Youtube didn't work on the Blackberry, but you could go to an alternate website that, I think, translated the youtube codec to something the blackberry could display. I may be misremembering, but I thought there was a kerfluffle about that similar to this.
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When youtube was in a spat with Roku and pulled YT off their platform, a similar app appeared. Of course YT nuked that as well.
Third party tools being locked out (Score:4, Insightful)
Something that doesn't go reported very much is that old devices slowly lose YouTube functionality (No longer works on Windows Mobile or Windows XP for example) and YouTube actively shuts third party services that tries to restore them out (such as Piped and Invidious). If your browser isn't up to YouTube's DRM standards you get locked out as a "bot". Despite HTML5 supposed to have made video sharing easy with a video tag, codec wars and copyright lawyers make the act of sharing a video on the internet almost impossible without relying on proprietary services like YouTube. This is also combined that Microsoft is abusing Microsoft defender to flag drm circumventing tools as malware, and Apple won't notarize them either.
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Imagine acting like you have some right to view YouTube any way you like.
Report to competition authorities (Score:4, Interesting)
Both companies are designated Gatekeepers under the EU Digital Market Act
Please address such issues to COMP-DMA-registry (at) ec.europa.eu
Re: Report to competition authorities (Score:1)
you're being manipulated
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We need a DMA in the United States, bc Apple/Google will continue to shut them down with impunity from the EU as long as the developer is US-based
This is fine (Score:3)
Just sideload FreeTube
Oh, right
Big Tech (Score:3)
New product comes out, regular people try to make it better, big tech being the greedy fuckers they are say no. Why in hell would I waste my money on a new product tied to tech companies that can dictate every aspect of the experience on the device I own? I'm a tinkerer at heart, not quite a full fledged maker. If I or someone else can't play with or modify my device experience for the better I'll simply avoid it. It seems avoiding ALL tech from the big tech behemoths is the only right thing to do nowadays.
The point of CSS (Score:2)
I remember when CSS first came out, one of the advantages touted by proponents was that clients could supply custom styling to override the default presentation of the site. So much for that.
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> I remember when CSS first came out, one of the advantages touted by proponents was that clients could supply custom styling to override the default presentation of the site. So much for that.
The modern take on that is that clients can supply "approved" custom styling to override the default presentation of the site. "Approved" is the most important word, and its importance is directly related to the amount of dollar signs behind the name of the approver.
Feudal Overlords have spoken (Score:2)
peasants have no voice, no vote nor recourse – STFU and take what they give.
Youtube, obviously, ain’t havin' no “fair use” on their platform,
SCOTUS time. Epic redux
Popular (Score:2)
Just how popular can it be? Do all eleven Vision Pro owners use it?
Re: (Score:1)
What in your opinion would have been the right thing for Apple to do here?
Re: Fuck Apple. Fuck Google. (Score:2)
$5 for an app that just does CSS manipulation sounds very apple, that would make sense. Though the ideal way to do this would be with a browser extension. Oh but that's right, iDevice users are forced to use what is by far the worst web browser, and it doesn't even have support for extensions.
If it doesn't run uBlock Origin... (Score:4)
> Oh but that's right, iDevice users are forced to use what is by far the worst web browser, and it doesn't even have support for extensions.
Like I (and others) have said before: if it doesn't run uBlock Origin, it's not a real browser.
Re: If it doesn't run uBlock Origin... (Score:2)
I don't think apple has the courage to make such an innovative breakthrough.
Re: Fuck Apple. Fuck Google. (Score:2)
You're actually getting fucked by apple and Google. Lol