Google allegedly bought the Juno YouTube app faraway from the Imaginative and prescient Professional App Retailer

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, instructed that his app violates their trademark.

It’s the most recent setback for Selig, who shut down his well-liked 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 “passion undertaking” for him to tinker with creating for visionOS. “I actually loved constructing Juno, however it was all the time one thing I noticed as basically a little bit app I constructed for enjoyable,” Selig wrote on his web site. “Due to that, I’ve zero need to spin this into a large struggle akin to what occurred with Reddit years in the past.”

It’s unclear what facet of Juno could have been the problem. Selig says that Google referenced its “emblems and iconography” in a message to Apple, “stating that Juno doesn’t adhere to YouTube tips and modifies the web site” in a method that’s not permitted. “I don’t personally agree with this, as Juno is only a net 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 aside from these already on the web site, and the ‘for YouTube’ suffix is permitted of their branding tips.”

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 be capable to maintain utilizing it in the interim, although there’s an opportunity a future YouTube replace might find yourself bricking it.