Juno, a critically acclaimed (unofficial) YouTube app from Imaginative and prescient Professional, has been faraway from the Apple App Retailer after complaints from Google, based on Juno developer Christian Selig. Selig mentioned Google prompt his app infringed on their trademark.
It is the most recent setback for Selig, who shut down the favored Apollo final 12 months after the corporate modified its developer coverage to cost to be used of its API. The shutdown of Apollo and different related apps sparked outrage amongst Reddit customers and moderators.
This time, Selig mentioned he needed no drama, noting that the $5 app was a “interest mission” of his, developed for VisionOS. “I actually loved constructing Juno, however I all the time considered it as primarily slightly software constructed for enjoyable,” Selig writes on his web site. “Due to that, I do not need this to show into a large struggle just like what occurred on Reddit just a few years in the past.”
It is unclear what side of Juno could also be at fault. Selig mentioned Google’s message to Apple citing its “logos and icons” “means that Juno just isn’t adhering to YouTube tips and modifying the location in a fashion that isn’t permitted.” “I personally disagree with this as a result of Juno is only a net view and does nothing greater than a browser extension that modifies CSS to make web sites and video gamers look extra like ‘visionOS,'” Selig defined. “No emblem can be positioned apart from the one already on the location, and the ‘for YouTube’ suffix is allowed in its model tips.”
Google has but to make its personal YouTube app for Imaginative and prescient Professional, though the corporate says such an app is “on our roadmap.” The corporate didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Selig mentioned customers who’ve paid for the app ought to be capable of proceed utilizing it in the intervening time, though there’s a probability that future YouTube updates will finally brick the app.
