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Poor 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.
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.
It needs a definition because it is a thing that happens though.
You need to differentiate between installing from the app store and installing from other sources, you might not like the choice of word, but we need a word to define it.
I guess we were all sideloading apps on Win 7 and other prev gens
Now that there’s a Microsoft/Windows app store, any app not sourced there is sideloaded.
Yes but sideloading makes it sound like something dangerous to people that don’t know any better. This is by design.
sideloading makes it sound like something dangerous
…according to whom? Who came up with this? If they called it “dangerloading” I’d be all on your side.
For tech illiterate people, it sounds bad.
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 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!
Dang, I used to have so many Juno disks. What a flashback.
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.
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.
I hope this frees up time to invest more time in a passion project for himself. I want nothing but contentment for that guy.
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.
Sent from
ApolloVoyagerI am typing this on Voyager, but would love to have a Lemmy client developed by Christian.
We should be fighting the laws that enable them to do this shit instead of whining about how Apple is adhering to them being allowed to protect their IP from people circumventing their bullshit forced ads.
Apple, for all their faults elsewhere, is only complying to what YouTube has a legal right to do. Don’t like it? Go after the law. Not those that have to abide it.
The problem isn’t Apple. It’s the laws that allow YouTube to do the heinous bullshit they do.
Man. Lemmy really needs a stickied post in every community that defines nuance and how to properly use it in everyday situations.
Direct consequence of sourcing all your software from a centralized, huge corporation controlled “app store”. That is hilarious.
Will mobile users ever tire of getting b1tchslapped by their masters?
