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Juno App Brings YouTube to Apple Vision Pro Because Google Won't

I won't get my headset for a couple of weeks so I can't try Juno yet. I made this true 3D VR 360 YouTube movie if someone wants to try it with Juno.

 
I can't see this ending well and I'm surprised Christian is taking a risk like this.

He got burned by Reddit when they altered the deal on him. YouTube doesn't even have an API for this, and they're already cracking down on ad blockers. How can he possibly believe that they won't cut off his app?
 
Abazigal said:
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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Um, it took google MORE resources to not release an app then to release an app. They could have allowed the iPad app to work, which is default with a checkbox option. Someone had to UNCHECK the box so that the iPad app wouldn't work!!
 
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I really don't understand, who wants to use junky videos of you tube to watch on VP, Really!
but if I need to watch something great on YouTube, well, here what I am going to do,
use clipGrab (awesome Mac app) which will instantly download the YouTube video for me in MP4 format and I can choose the quality of download if needed on specific video, ClipGrab download video super quick, drop that file to my iPhoto custom folder, take a breather, go back to VP and I should have that video in my VP iPhoto.
 
Do content blockers and extensions work on Safari on visionOS, like say Vinegar for YouTube?
 
waffffffle said:
I can't see this ending well and I'm surprised Christian is taking a risk like this.

He got burned by Reddit when they altered the deal on him. YouTube doesn't even have an API for this, and they're already cracking down on ad blockers. How can he possibly believe that they won't cut off his app?
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Yes, YouTube has an official API for this and he's using it, as he explains in his blog post.
 
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Reminds me of the Apple Watch and how developers pulled out from making apps. Scary. iPhone should be good though ✅
 
aidler said:
I find this “who offers an AVP app and who does not” topic and the hysteria around it really childish. The fact is that the current version of AVP is insignificant to most users and developers. For many, it currectly makes no economic sense to release an app for the AVP.
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Exactly. Some people bashing developers like it was their fault. It does not make sense to Google or any developer to devote a team of programmers to build an app for a device that sold a limited number of units, then maintain and fix the bugs… it’s just not sensible.
 
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Imagine setting up the stage, charging your battery, putting on a heavy headset on...all to watch some iJustine.
 
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AsarTheGod said:
Reminds me of the Apple Watch and how developers pulled out from making apps. Scary. iPhone should be good though ✅
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Apple Watch ran apps poorly in the beginning. But Apple Watch is an excellent device without any third party apps and is integral to the workflows of many devoted users, most likely using just the built-in apps. Funny that Apple Watch has a calculator app (which is useful on the Ultra’s flat screen), but my iPad Pro does not.
 
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GeoStructural said:
Exactly. Some people bashing developers like it was their fault. It does not make sense to Google or any developer to devote a team of programmers to build an app for a device that sold a limited number of units, then maintain and fix the bugs… it’s just not sensible.
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It's the overwhelming sense of entitlement that comes from people who didn't live through Apple in the 1990s, when developers were abandoning the platform in droves due both to Apple's financial and market struggles, and because Apple was an absolutely miserable company to work with. Disorganized, arrogant, technologically moribund.

Much of that has changed (other than perhaps Apple's relationship with developers, which remains a dance with the devil). But comparatively, we have an absurd wealth of applications and services targeting Apple's primary platform (iPhone) and even all the niche platforms that play follow the leader (everything else).

The AVP is a niche of a niche of a niche, and as a result, will need to prove its worth as a development target. Developers will need to evaluate if the audience using it is worth the resources required to support it as a platform. Indie developers like Selig have little to lose trying to get out at the front end. Microsoft likely had some special organizational deal with Apple to get Office prepped for AVP. Everyone else? "Because Apple" is a terrible reason to do anything. Writing software is not a love note, it's a business.

But, you know. People be people.
 
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cateye said:
It's the overwhelming sense of entitlement that comes from people who didn't live through Apple in the 1990s, when developers were abandoning the platform in droves due both to Apple's financial and market struggles, and because Apple was an absolutely miserable company to work with. Disorganized, arrogant, technologically moribund.

Much of that has changed (other than perhaps Apple's relationship with developers, which remains a dance with the devil). But comparatively, we have an absolute absurd wealth of applications and services targeted at Apple's primary platform (iPhone) and even all the niche platforms that play follow the leader (everything else).

The AVP will need to prove its position in the same way the iPad or anything else did, and developers will need to evaluate if the audience using it is worth the resources to target. Indie developers like Selig have comparatively little to loose trying to get out at the front end. Microsoft likely had some special organizational deal with Apple to get Office prepped for AVP. Everyone else? "Because Apple" is a terrible reason to do anything. Writing software is not a love note, it's a business.

But, you know. People be people.
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"But Apple Vision Pro is the future, so everyone must jump when we, the Apple Vision Pro owners, say so!"

The screams of a spoiled child being told no is a sound to behold.
 
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I want my living room to look like every one we've ever seen in any advertisements for this thing. They never look like reality:

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(not mine)
 
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i fear this is gonna get taken down in like a week

Every single unofficial YouTube client has been purged from the App Store and had their API access revoked by Google so I don’t expect this one to last unless it’s just some kind of wrapper using YouTube’s native embeds

EDIT: Judging by the little YouTube watermark on every video I suspect that’s exactly what this app is doing
Clever. That should spare it from being blocked because there’s no API client ID they can blacklist but I feel like Google can still whine and have Apple boot it from the store

Honestly if I had an Apple vision I would buy it just to stick it to google lol

EDIT 2: Should’ve just read the blog, he straight up explained how the sausage is made
Definitely a smart approach but there IS some API calls for the feeds and whatnot, it just uses embeds for the player so Google can just kill it remotely without even going through Apple :/
 
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Abazigal said:
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? :cool:
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Man I miss that app and other. That is absolutely the first thing I would side load on my iPhone so I can delete the horrible app known as YouTube
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spazzcat said:
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.
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Lol thats not even close. Spotify launched in 2006. And didn’t get an iOS app until 2011.
 
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