Juno is kinda garbage
I’ve been using Juno since I got my AVP but I think today I’m going to have to stop using it. There’s just way way way too many bugs.
For people who don’t know Juno is made by the same person who developed apollo as a youtube app for the AVP since Youtube very kindly decided to blacklist their app from the app store. At first I was quite excited for it, it was literally the first app I bought and downloaded onto the device, but after using it for ten or so hours over the past couple days I just don’t think it’s in a usable state right now.
Let’s go over some of my issues with it
Watch history doesn’t sync between the AVP and other devices or vice versa. Clicking a video that has a progess bar because it was watched on another device yields the video starting from the beginning. Videos watched on AVP don’t even appear in my watch history let alone synced across other devices.
Clicking on the home tab will frequently result in a signed out default home page. Clicking the sign in button isn’t hard but it’s extremely weird that I have to do it all.
I will frequently find that I will “accedentilly” (I don’t even know how I’m doing this) skip to some random point in the video, completely runining the experience.
I have found that sometimes, instead of it opening a Juno page, it will just open a youtube webpage in the Juno app, I actually prefer this because the webpage is far more usable but this is more annoying since it isn’t remotely consistent.
One of the MAIN FEATURES I hope would be possible, downloading videos, doesn’t appear to be possible right now. Clicking on the dots that would normally yield a download button just plays the video.
Speeding up or slowing down the video causes the video to buffer slightly and clicking the buttons before the video loads tells you that the video has been sped up but actually does nothing.
Many many MANY features are missing completely. Likes/Dislikes, Comments, Autoplay, Recommended videos in the side pannel, clicking the end cards at the end of the video, and probably more I can’t think of right now or haven’t encountered yet.
I hope these issues are fixed but what was the point of even releasing the app in this state. Many of these issues are ones I noticed within 3 seconds of opening the app that I refuse to believe the developer didn’t notice and yet he felt the app was in a state to not only release it but charge for it. This app feels (probably because as far as I can tell it was) rushed out the door as fast as possible to make sure it was up and making money before the headset released. He said that he charges for it because we should get used to pay for apps so people have an incentive to develop them for the AVP but this app is not something I felt was remotely worth my money when a 2x better experince exists in the browser.