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Juno, an app designed for watching YouTube on the Vision Pro, has been removed from the App Store, developer Christian Selig said today. Back

Google, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has removed Juno, an unofficial YouTube app designed for Vision Pro, from its App Store. What Happened: On Tuesday, Christian Selig, the developer of Juno, took to X,

As Sinclair’s first spatial computing app built natively for Vision Pro devices, the NewsON app for Vision Pro introduces a unique “Newsroom immersion” feature, leveraging spatial aspects of the Vision Pro for displaying interactive news maps and a complete immersive environment.

The launch of Apple Vision Pro has been…not so great. Apple’s premium Mixed Reality headset saw poor sales shortly after launch and then failed to attract enterprise interest afterwards. And now Apple has removed Juno from the App Store,

Despite a lack of first-party YouTube clients on Apple Vision Pro, YouTube has prompted Apple to remove Juno from the App Store, citing vague guideline violations.

Even so, this wasn’t enough to convince Google, which managed to get Apple to remove Juno from the visionOS App Store. Given that Selig was also involved in a massive fight with Reddit last year over changes to the platform’s API, he says he has “zero desire” to fight Google to bring Juno back.

YouTube app for Vision Pro, has been removed from Apple’s App Store after complaints from Google, according to an update from Juno’s developer Christian Selig. Google, Selig says, suggested that his app violates their trademark.