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YT shooting themselves in the foot here. Someone makes a third party client that keeps ads and doesnt allow for downloading, and generally (probably) makes the YT experience not absolute shit and they have to get rid of it, ensuring people just keep using the ones that don’t.
I am typing this on Voyager, but would love to have a Lemmy client developed by Christian.
I had forgotten the name of his Vision Pro app, so I was very confused. Is it 1998 and they’re banning my dial-up internet/email service?
Juno: Because email was meant to be free!
this sort of thing is exactly why mozilla, firefox, and - more specifically - a non-profit internet is essential to it’s survival. two for profit ad-driven companies being the gatekeepers of the internet is horrible.
This is why side loading is important. Fuck apple and google
“Sideloading” isn’t a thing. That’s a term to shame and discredit people and apps installed outside of the official stores. Just like people got shamed by “jaywalking” for merely crossing the street. Both of those things were, are, and always should be the norm.
That’s a term to shame and discredit people and apps installed outside of the official stores.
…where ever did you get that idea from?
Because it isn’t real. You aren’t “sideloading”. You’re simply installing apps. You’re not doing anything different, other than using a source that the big company does not like.
That didn’t answer my question.
Sideloading just means you’re installing apps from outside the first party app store. Im not sure where youre getting the shame and discrediting from.
I was extremely surprised that Apple let Christian publish this originally, they have blocked alternative YouTube clients for years. At the time I thought that Apple is doing this to spite Google who didn’t release native app for VisionOS. Christian had a good relationship with Apple and could deliver something high quality so there’s that too. Curious that they changed their mind but it’s safe to assume Apple and Google had to work it out.
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ApolloVoyagerPoor Christian. First Reddit now YouTube
He’s a great developer but he needs to find a way not to be so reliant on giant tech companies to make his apps viable.
All technology development stands on the shoulders of giants. It’s unethical for modern giants to refuse to continue the tradition.
the app in question was
- on Apple App Store
- for Vision Pro
so your alternatives might not be the best fit here.
Haha, ooooooooops.
(But hey, I guess Android users can get some mileage out of it.)
I hope this frees up time to invest more time in a passion project for himself. I want nothing but contentment for that guy.
Read this as contemptment 3 or 4 times and was very confused.
