Juno, a broadly praised (unofficial) YouTube app for Imaginative and prescient Professional, has been faraway from Apple’s App Retailer after complaints from Google, in line with from Juno’s developer Christian Selig. Google, Selig says, advised that his app violates their trademark.
It’s the newest setback for Selig, who shut down his widespread Apollo final yr after the corporate modified its developer insurance policies to cost to be used of its API. The shutdown of Apollo and different apps prefer it ignited a from Reddit customers and moderators.
This time, Selig says he doesn’t need drama, noting the $5 app was a “pastime challenge” for him to tinker with growing for visionOS. “I actually loved constructing Juno, but it surely was at all times one thing I noticed as essentially slightly app I constructed for enjoyable,” Selig wrote on his web site. “Due to that, I’ve zero want to spin this into a large battle akin to what occurred with Reddit years in the past.”
It’s unclear what facet of Juno could have been the difficulty. Selig says that Google referenced its “logos and iconography” in a message to Apple, “stating that Juno doesn’t adhere to YouTube pointers and modifies the web site” in a means that’s not permitted. “I don’t personally agree with this, as Juno is only a internet view, and acts as little greater than a browser extension that modifies CSS to make the web site and video participant look extra ‘visionOS’ like,” Selig explains. “No logos are positioned apart from these already on the web site, and the ‘for YouTube’ suffix is permitted of their branding pointers.”
Google hasn’t made its personal YouTube app for Imaginative and prescient Professional, although the corporate stated such an app was “on our roadmap.” The corporate didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Selig says that individuals who have already paid for the app ought to have the ability to hold utilizing it in the interim, although there’s an opportunity a future YouTube replace may find yourself bricking it.
