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YouTube App Removed From iOS 6 Beta4
TrueSatan writes "iOS 6 beta 4 has removed the YouTube application that existed on iOS since the first version in 2007. Apple confirmed that YouTube is gone from iOS 6. Google is apparently building its own app saying: 'Our license to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended, customers can use YouTube in the Safari browser and Google is working on a new YouTube app to be on the App Store.'"
I can now delete an app I never used.
First no Google Maps, now this. iOS is really heading south.
I'm glad to be an Android user. I'll stick with that.
I'm not usually the guy to post the "bitch about Slashdot" troll post, but seriously guys: It's not necessary to post something everytime someone from APPL, MSFT, or GOOG wipes their ass.
"Oh noes. Default app got removed, now I either have to download the new one or use a web browser! Slashdot story, ACTIVATE!"
Support the EFF and Creative Commons. The war is coming, and they're supporting you...
Personally, I hate the iOS App for YouTube. I have a link on my desktop which I use instead. Works great.
These devices should come with the basic app market/store and as little else as possible. When signing up, offer the basics, browser/email, and a list of suggested good to haves, but the lighter these things are on base install, the better. Ok, might be a pain for some people getting a device that's 'empty' and needs 5 mins of installing before it's considered useful, but sure would make upgrades easier later with having no apps baked in.
Waiting for an amusing sig.
I'm amazed at the indolent culture spawned by the iPhone: Nowadays, you can't just go to a website. You have to have a special executable for every single different website you visit!
It seems like there are people who don't go to certain websites, until they announce "Announcing the blah.com iPhone App!"
I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the Internet. Blog
Isn't that how it goes? Remove competition and then add in watered down version Apple controls.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
The app has always been somewhat restricted. It was good back in 2007. Since 2010 the web app has been better. Considering its impossible to delete stock apps unless you JB, I'm glad to see this one go. It won't be missed and free's up space.
In many ways, faking this expedition is way, way easier than it was during the Apollo years, due to no astronauts on the mission, comparable gravity, and atmosphere.
"Comparable gravity and atmosphere"? Ha, you pitiful fool, they've got you hook, line and sinker. It's only "comparable" because they made you think it is that way. Did you really seriously think Mars exists? Or Moon, for that matter? It's all a century old masonic communist project to create a single world government under the guise of "space colonization"! Just look at what China is planning for "Mars" now, and ask yourself if it's a coincidence that US is also actively pursuing that direction... in no time at all you'll see cooperation announced, and from there it's only a couple of years before you get to learn how to say "thank you for not punishing me today, comrade commissar" in Chinese!
XKCD
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
First no Google Maps, now this. iOS is really heading south.
Yes, south to a more hospitable climate.
Instead of being locked into YouTube, iOS users can happily use any video service (like Vimeo for example).
Instead of iOS developers being limited in what they can do with a map (like no turn by turn directions) by arbitrary Google limitations, iOS map based apps can now do anything they like atop a map.
The only ways iOS users are not better off from being freed from Google is that they get more ads from Safari based YouTube viewing on iOS. But since that's Google's choice, it's hard to blame apple for it...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Levity is tempting and all... but in all seriousness, YouTube is most definitely not one of my most frequented apps, and I don't sense much loss at it's removal from the default set. No loss at all, in fact... since Google will almost certainly roll out a non-bundled version of the app to coincide with the release of the final version of iOS 6. Oh, I'm sure I'll download the new YouTube app, alright, right after I install iOS 6... but it'll still sit buried in a folder, used once every few months or so when I hit an Angry Birds level that I simply can't figure out on my own -- just like the current version of the YouTube app.
The proper place for Hulu, YouTube, Netflix, and all the rest would seem to be as optional downloads from the iOS App Store.
The only fair alternatives are to pre-load all competing media players and give them the same prominence as iTunes or introduce a purely bureaucratic solution like the European "browser ballot" for media play.
From what I've read, the new Total Recall movie doesn't even happen on Mars.
WTF!?
Then it ain't Total Recall. If I can't see a mutant 3-titted Martian hooker in cheap biodome light, then I just don't see the point in watching that movie...
I'm sure you're right. I suppose it's convenient, too... The rocket used to "launch the mission" wasn't carrying anything that went to Mars. It was launching the satellite that controls the minds of a significant portion of the population. (ie-the ones that are not shielding their brains with the proper grounded metallic covering.)
I had a sucky sig.
I'm sure the "story" poster intended to torch off a giant anti-Apple flame fest.
But as usual, it's a non-story.
As they say, "Move along, nothing to see here..."
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Since when? Only about 10% of youtube works with HTML5. Everything else is Flash.
but it'll still sit buried in a folder, used once every few months or so when I hit an Angry Birds level that I simply can't figure out on my own -- just like the current version of the YouTube app.
Haha, this is pretty much THE only thing I've used YouTube for in the last six months!
#DeleteChrome
Y'know, back in my day, our conspiracy theorist nuts would come up with better flimsy evidence than that. They'd string together total coincidences that might stop to make you think for a second before they noticed the bleary eyes and slight hint of frothing around the lips. They certainly wouldn't depend on a movie's release date to pull it off; that's the job of the movie industry shills. And they MOST definitely wouldn't pull a movie out of their asses that had nothing to do with Mars (the remake takes place entirely on earth, loony).
*sigh* Kids today. No respect for the lunatic wackjobs of old.
And our wackjobs typically came from an academic background, born from frustration and lack of faith in the bureaucratic nightmare of life in academia combined with long-untreated mental illnesses. They at least had a basic, if not twisted, concept of the scientific process; where's your demand for nearly-impossible-to-obtain "evidence" to disprove you? And if those demands don't have AT LEAST three obvious escape plans such that you can rationalize your way out of accepting the evidence when presented to you, don't even bother embarrassing yourself by demanding it.
While Mars was cut, there still is a 3 boobed hooker, so it's not all bad. Just mostly.
- "Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem"
Since when? Only about 10% of youtube works with HTML5. Everything else is Flash.
The rest are encoding it wrong.
I hate to be the one to say this but YHBT YHL HAND.
Just like the supposed government invention of the Arpanet, which allegedly became the Internet.
Both of these things are fake, and there is actually no such thing as the Internet.
It's just a BBS with no one but you connected, and the world population being simulated by AI.
Which of course means you do not even exist, and your post is faked by an AI. Since I am the only human in existence and the rest of you are fakes, it gives me a perfect excuse to treat the world and other people as my plaything, without having to feel bad at all!
I'm actually concerned that my metallic covering isn't properly grounded. Could you walk me through proper procedure?
The only YouTube content I haven't been able to view on my iPhone is specifically disabled for mobile (some media company, which I now cannot recall, that mainly does music videos).
YMMV.
I don't have flash on my computer. In my experience, 100% of youtube videos are html5 compliant on Safari/h.264. With Firefox/ogg/webm, a large number don't work.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
From what I've read, the new Total Recall movie doesn't even happen on Mars.
WTF!?
Then it ain't Total Recall. If I can't see a mutant 3-titted Martian hooker in cheap biodome light, then I just don't see the point in watching that movie...
The original story (written in a book) was not set on Mars. Therefore Arnie's Total Recall was not Total Recall.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
I think so, but that's how Apple does business.
Therefore Arnie's Total Recall was not Total Recall.
Yes it was, it's just not "We Can Remember It For You, Wholesale". Which neither movie really resembles in the slightest.
The original story (written in a book) was not set on Mars.
It also wasn't called "Total Recall" (it was titled "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale").
So Arnie's Total Recall *is* "Total Recall", but not "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", whereas Colin Farrell's Total Recall isn't really "Total Recall", but more "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale".
It's all rather confusing, but not nearly as confusing as reading some of Phillip K. Dick's novels.
The grounding is a trick; it just ties you into the Earth's energy fields, and makes the mind control easier.
Just remember:
* Shiny side out blocks mind control.
* Shiny side in blocks reading your thoughts.
You have to pick one!
Wrong thread, idiot.
You think those were GOOGLE restrictions? The only reason any restrictions were in place was because APPLE refused to allow Google to provide the best apps they could.
You know, Apple Haters are generally stupid, but every now and then you run across a "special" Apple Hater who just really takes stupid to the next level.
I mean, you might have only been wrong about where map application restrictions came from. But then you doubled down atop that by also incorrectly claiming Google wrote the iOS maps app...
So then, the takedown:
The iOS map app has been written by Apple from the start. Google just provided the data. So how did Apple limit anything in what they themselves were writing?
The restrictions on what application developers could do with map data came wholly from Google. You can tell because the moment Apple stopped using Google for reverse geocoding a limit on use per day of the APi was also lifted (that was last year). You can tell because now that Google is no longer providing map data developers can place turn by turn directions on the map.
In short the entire world inhaled sharply when they saw your post, aghast at the sheer ignorance on display. Even your fellow Apple Haters will shun you after that debacle.
I'll let you have the last reply as Apple Haters always feel the need to debase themselves as much as possible, and I'm quite sure you'll want to cement the evidence of ignorance you have to offer.
If you don't believe me, go look up what happened with Google Voice for iOS.
The Google Voice that is in the app store... huh.
Yes, I'm sure you have many more ignorant comments along those lines to share in further twisted missives. I'll not be reading but perhaps someone else can find amusement in your inevitably ignorant response.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Apple has always been about exclusion which is the very reason I hate the company. No matter how shiny their products, their "Them and US" attitude leaves a foul taste.
Google is the exact opposite. They are very inclusive. Always competing by providing a better product. Apple fights back using litigation. If Google had the Apple attitude then they would not provide Google Maps for IOS, no GMail and no Youtube. They even run a youtube video format just to service Apple users. To top it all off, Google even stimulates the use of operating systems other then Windows among it's staff.
All Google needs to do is hang in there. Apple will soon enough implode onto its arrogant self.
I don't have flash on my computer and I've yet to come across a youtube video that doesn't work on my computer or my phone.
I think I speak for all iOS users over the age of 12 when I say: Good riddance!
...no actual news occurred.
Where did you pull that number out from?
It's all rather confusing, but not nearly as confusing as reading some of Phillip K. Dick's novels.
at least one rapper understands him...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVIKMZIRKaU
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so... are we back to celestial spheres and ether then?
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not really, asshole.
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if they can control your mind they already chose what you're thinking for you. debunked!
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Yet again something easily filmed in Arizona....
"Overrated" does not mean "I disagree". My post addresses the point in question in a manner suitable for a debate. If it's repeating a previous point, then perhaps "redundant"; if it's inflammatory or trolling then "troll" or flamebait"; if it's amusing then "funny". But overrated as a moderation on a comment that has not yet received any moderation? Come on guys, at least give a token nod to impartiality in moderation.
I'd be curious to know exactly what about my comment earned it a score of "overrated" with a starting score of 1.
Come on mods. Offtopic? The point is directly relevant to the OP's query about Youtube working on Safari on iOS, in a story about Youtube on iOS...
I'm not sure how to be more on topic?
the satellite that controls the minds of a significant portion of the population.
I can set your mind to rest there.
After having extensive conversations with many US citizens recently, I've found minimal evidence their minds are controlled, by themselves or externally.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
1. If you don't use the app, you can now delete it.
2. The web app has been better than the real one for a while now, presumably because Google didn't get the opportunity to update it. Now the app will be more up to date and useful.
The downside is that now there will probably be some less popular more annoying replacement that you can't delete.
Google is apparently building its own app saying: 'Our license to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended, customers can use YouTube in the Safari browser and Google is working on a new YouTube app to be on the App Store.'"
This quote is attributed to Google in the summary. This is incorrect, it is a quote from Apple.
Apple's license to use the YouTube app in iOS has ended, NOT Google's license.
the first one voids your warranty and all of them are cop-out answers
The first one does NOT void your warranty. If you jailbreak simply restore the device to the factory OS for service. If it will not turn on, then how will they know it's jailbroken... they won't, they'd just give you a new device.
It's that kind of petty ignorance that bothers me most about Apple Haters. No matter how many times the truth of a thing is pointed out to people like you you proceed to use the same argument, even though it cheapens the rest of what you write.
As for expressing dissatisfaction, yes that is healthy - but it's better to express informed dissatisfaction if you want to be listened to. Apple has been very clear on the security reasons around why Nitro is not by default allowed in App Store apps. If you care at all about the hundreds of millions of non-technical users operating mobile devices you can easily see that it's a reasonable default and not something that should be casually enabled, except for technical users... and that's where Jailbreaking comes in. It takes minutes and gives you all the freedom to hurt yourself you could ever desire, which is a great tradeoff for everyone.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
He's not your asshole, jerkface!
Am I the only one who like this YouTube app? I have tried the android's honeycomb native YouTube app too, but I found iPad's YouTube app is much faster, responsive and smooth for casual browsing. The mobile web is slow to loading all the UI's before starting the video...and iPad's safari is never a fast browser anyway. If I must required to upgrade to IOS6, I'll try to jailbreak it, then find a way to install this .app by copy the binary from IOS5.x....
kill yourself.
and type in *GASP* http://youtube.com./ If people want to visit youtube they will and a lack of an app isn't going to change that. Not sure what Apples motivations are here.
Good explanation, a pity you did it as an AC. Convinces me I ought to watch it, I liked the book.
IMHO, it would be great if all of the default apps were removed, but available in a special app-store category. Then I wouldn't have to have a folder called "Useless" that contains the default apps that can't be deleted (if you don't jailbreak your phone). Or, they could come pre-installed if they could just be deleted from the device.
Same issue seems to exist on Android, though. Pre-installed apps are just there taking up space and there's nothing you can do about it without rooting your device.