Neat idea. I’m going to watch how this develops but I don’t see it ever becoming much of a thing until there is iOS support. I’m not an iPhone user. Just realistic.
The app was developed for Android alone. They didn’t even use the easily portable Jetpack Compose style of Android app development, so a port is going to be difficult.
I bet this app will be plenty popular outside the US where iOS users are still the minority. Inside the US, it’ll probably be like Newpipe or Revanced, something iOS users don’t know they want.
Since the app basically requires external content, I doubt Apple will let something like this into the app store in the first place. Maybe a port will make it to the EU once Apple complies with EU regulations regarding gatekeeper companies, but Youtube and all the other video distribution apps this runs will probably kill it before it’s even been released to the public.
I can also see Youtube using the same “we can kill your access at any point in time for no reason at all” capability that Futo put into their license to kill Rossman’s Youtube channel if he continues to be the public figurehead for this app.
Third party frontends of all kinds are forbidden on the Play and App store but we Android users have F-Droid and if the license is changed at some point (it’s supposed to be temporary as far as I understand) it will probably land there, till then Obtanium is probably your best bet I guess.
Very interesting, I doubt it’s going to stay there long because this is literally the first third party frontend of all kinds I as privacy enthusiast have ever seen accepted and I really wonder how they did that!
Wild, so understandably android is a much greater share, given the wide variety of phones it can run on… I’m guessing iOS is a favored app market because it’s more monolithic or stable? Or put another way the android share is fragmented all over the place?
Neat idea. I’m going to watch how this develops but I don’t see it ever becoming much of a thing until there is iOS support. I’m not an iPhone user. Just realistic.
The app was developed for Android alone. They didn’t even use the easily portable Jetpack Compose style of Android app development, so a port is going to be difficult.
I bet this app will be plenty popular outside the US where iOS users are still the minority. Inside the US, it’ll probably be like Newpipe or Revanced, something iOS users don’t know they want.
Since the app basically requires external content, I doubt Apple will let something like this into the app store in the first place. Maybe a port will make it to the EU once Apple complies with EU regulations regarding gatekeeper companies, but Youtube and all the other video distribution apps this runs will probably kill it before it’s even been released to the public.
I can also see Youtube using the same “we can kill your access at any point in time for no reason at all” capability that Futo put into their license to kill Rossman’s Youtube channel if he continues to be the public figurehead for this app.
Third party frontends of all kinds are forbidden on the Play and App store but we Android users have F-Droid and if the license is changed at some point (it’s supposed to be temporary as far as I understand) it will probably land there, till then Obtanium is probably your best bet I guess.
It is on the Google Play Store.
Very interesting, I doubt it’s going to stay there long because this is literally the first third party frontend of all kinds I as privacy enthusiast have ever seen accepted and I really wonder how they did that!
Almost no third party frontend supports iOS because of their absolutely shitty sideloading limitations and they still work great…
This is something I always wonder about—is there a good source for realistic market share of mobile os?
There you go.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide/#monthly-202209-202309
While 0,36% doesn’t sound very high, I’m surprised that so many people are using Tizen. That’s like one of every ~330 devicds
These could be a mix of smart watches, cheap phones, and maybe house appliances like smart TVs.
Wild, so understandably android is a much greater share, given the wide variety of phones it can run on… I’m guessing iOS is a favored app market because it’s more monolithic or stable? Or put another way the android share is fragmented all over the place?
iOS also has a far better ratio in the western world, which I guess helps
Mainly just the USA from looking at that really.
Also iOS users spend more money on average.
Interesting, thanks for the share!