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Juno App Brings YouTube to Apple Vision Pro Because Google Won't
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Christian Selig is such an amazing dev. Sees a problem and fixes it.
Those third party YT apps removed ads. Juno is just a wrapper that makes it look better and more pleasant to use. You still see ads if you don't have Premium so Google shouldn't have as much of a problem with it.
It has nothing to do with Apple. It’s not their app
Ads aside, Protube was by a far a way superior app for viewing YouTube than the stock YouTube app itself (and it is still is). It brought split-screen multitasking and PIP mode to the iPad in 2016 at a time when Google was extremely slow in supporting new iOS features.
What are the odds that Juno still ends up being a superior app to YouTube if and when it does get released for the Vision Pro?
How is Google not developing a YouTube app for Vision 'on Apple'? Genuine question - is Apple in some way preventing them?
This is fantastic to see and the app looks great. Can't wait to try it today. It also puts into perspective billion dollar companies claiming "subscale", etc. as if this was an incredible amount of work. Then a single, smart guy comes along and knocks one out in short order. Love it!
It has to be Google considering how few people are actually using AVP.
Even if everyone who has bought an AVP downloads the YouTube app, it would only be some 200.000 people which is a teeny tiny number compared to how many are using YouTube from iOS, Android, desktop, etc.
The r&d to make it and keep it running is not worth it, I have to assume.
I am going to assume that Google simply hasn't gotten round to making a YouTube app "yet", and that they eventually will. Google doesn't really have any beef with Apple.
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Instead of throughly unproductive "piling on" with pessimism as if the only possible destination for Vpro is market failure, what you see here is classic entrepreneurism: "see a market problem or opportunity and exploit it for profit."
In Vpro posts dating all the way back to pre WWDC rumors, there are seemingly THOUSANDS of pessimist posts identifying every possible wrong, including many that are invented to try to fuel their fire. Many of the faults/complaints/issues are addressable by entrepreneurs creating apps- like this one- or accessories like now several Vpro custom bags for sale on Ebay for under $40 or battery banks that cost less than buying more Apple batteries while storing much more energy.
More simply, the entrepreneurs among us thank the pessimists for helping to identify "many problems in search of (ASAP) solutions." You did some of the work for such entrepreneurs. Now, the agile will develop solutions the directly address identified issues that can actually be resolved with some code, imagination and/or accessory manufacturing. Of course, they- not the pessimists- will get the revenue from such creations.
I look forward to seeing more of this kind of solutions-based entrepreneurism. Bring it all on!
In Vpro posts dating all the way back to pre WWDC rumors, there are seemingly THOUSANDS of pessimist posts identifying every possible wrong, including many that are invented to try to fuel their fire. Many of the faults/complaints/issues are addressable by entrepreneurs creating apps- like this one- or accessories like now several Vpro custom bags for sale on Ebay for under $40 or battery banks that cost less than buying more Apple batteries while storing much more energy.
More simply, the entrepreneurs among us thank the pessimists for helping to identify "many problems in search of (ASAP) solutions." You did some of the work for such entrepreneurs. Now, the agile will develop solutions the directly address identified issues that can actually be resolved with some code, imagination and/or accessory manufacturing. Of course, they- not the pessimists- will get the revenue from such creations.
I look forward to seeing more of this kind of solutions-based entrepreneurism. Bring it all on!
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I'm going to wait and see. I expect this to be pulled very fast from the store. If it's still available after 30 days, I'll buy it.
Am I the only one that prefers to use YouTube in the browser so I can use extensions to never have to watch a commercial?
I mean, if someone just spent $3500+ on a Vision Pro, I’d think “risking” $4.99 to watch YouTube wouldn’t be much of a stretch.
Lots of people are thinking that the lack of support by Netflix and Google isn't just because of the tiny install base, but instead think the lack of development for the platform is an attack on Apple's monopolistic policies and unfair app store rules. Especially when Apple decided to avoid the intention of the EUs laws recently.
Whether that's true or not, I have no idea. But Apple certainly hasn't helped Spotify, YouTube, or Netflix make money in the app store by forcing their antisteering policy and 30% tax. Squeezing every possible penny out of competitors who also provide huge swaths of content to your platform isn't always the wisest decision.
I use YouTube in a browser because I prefer not to install any Google apps on my non-Apple TV devices.
Same for Meta and Amazon. I’ll install Prime Video on Apple TV, but nowhere else.
It clearly doesn't take a whole R&D team to create a AVP app seeing how this small time dev just did it.
Every person that signed up for these services because of modern smart phones was because of Apple. Spotify wouldn't even be a thing without iPhone.
Sadly, that's a tradition here... to *always assume the worst* as that justifies having a good moan, even though it defies logic.
iJustine floating in my living room? I couldn’t imagine a greater hell.
No argument. The poor guy opens himself up to litigation and app death from behemoth jerks like Reddit or Google though because he plugs into their APIs that they eventually kill...
Prior to AVP reviews, I had never watched any videos by iJustine or the other AVP reviewers. They all have large followings for different reasons, and thanks to Apple, they probably picked up a few more subscribers this week.
Yeah, how long before Google wants him to pay a billion dollars for writing something that works with YouTube?
My pickup time is three hours from now at the Apple Store about twenty minutes from my home.
So I will be purchasing this app about four hours from now.
Even if I end up deciding to return the AVP to Apple for full refund at the end of my ‘two week in-home demo period’ in the worst case scenario, I will have no regrets about spending $5 on this app.