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YouTube App Removed From iOS 6 Beta4

Posted by samzenpus on from the you're-outta-here dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:Glad to be an Android user.... by the_B0fh · · Score: 3, Informative

    What has that got to do with anything? You *DO* realize that youtube is available via the Safari browser too, right? And that you can put a shortcut to it in your screen? And the mobile version can pull down better resolution stuff..?

    A lot of people prefer to use the mobile version of youtube rather than the app. With the app, you can't even copy a damned url link.

  2. Re:Glad to be an Android user.... by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why wouldn't Apple approve it? Especially when they already gave the line of "Google is working on their own app" as an excuse.

  3. Re:customers can use YouTube in the Safari browser by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:thank god by Ossifer · · Score: 3, Informative

    The difference is that you can delete most of those. Also, when you upgrade to iOS 6, you won't have to delete the youtube app--it'll just be gone.

    Most people I know have a folder of undesired, undeletable Applue-supplied apps...