At the Behest of YouTube, Juno Has Been Removed From the App Store
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/02/juno-rip
@daringfireball besides price, the reason the Vision Pro is such a failure — repellant even to those of us who love VR — is the lack of developer support. I bet that support would be 10 times what it is today were it not for years of Apple treating developers like gum on its shoe. Clearly, it still hasn’t learned that lesson.
If only someone could take them to task on this, say at WWDC, instead of giving them an annual free pass in order to ensure their ticket keeps getting punched. Oh well
@billyok @daringfireball how do you expect Apple to support the developer when the actual IP holder of a brand says it’s infringing on their property?
@delric @daringfireball not sure how a modified web view is infringing on anything. But certainly there’s a process that could play out that’s a little more nuanced than suddenly yanking the app from the store. Even if Apple had no recourse, it can proceed in a way that doesn’t leave one of its floundering platform’s most impactful developers feeling like he was just flicked aside like a bug.
@billyok @daringfireball Like how?
@daringfireball While he doesn't block ads, he's making a superior product on a competing platform. If it was on a Google Headset imagine it wouldn't have been removed. Just like how most Google apps, swipe from left to go back doesn't work, even though they have talented people who could fix those issues, but presumably don't want people having a better experience on iOS devices than their own. Can't wait to see what Christian does next and hopefully one of them brings home the bacon for him.
@TechRemarker @daringfireball Google's entire end game is shoving as many ads as it can in as many faces as it can find. They don't run these rotten adware services to sell hardware; it's the other way around.
@daringfireball I’m the age of enshittification, service providers seem to want the UX to suck. If somebody offers a UX that doesn’t suck, it might constrain future revenue extraction opportunities. Standards need to be as low as possible.
@daringfireball +1 for the “trifecta”! I’m sure Christian will have another great app!
@daringfireball Another reminder of the importance of protocols, not platforms.