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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.
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.
Ironically, since the Safari web app came out, people have been asking for this especially since many of the videos won't play in the native app anyway you need the web app or Vevo, etc. Yet as soon as they pull it, people start making a big deal out of it. Sure Apple is distancing themselves from Google a bit, but its not like this broke something. It would be different if Google Voice was built into IOS like it is on Android and then Apple removed it. That would have some impact. But simply removing the YouTube app? Not so much.
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
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.
Part of the reason for 'having an app' is for native performance on the hardware itself. Even Facebook is making a native app on iOS.
Source: http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3120964/facebook-objective-c-app
Wait, what? They're removing a watered-down YouTube app made by Apple, and now you'll have the option to install an official one instead (or just use the website.)
So no, it's the exact opposite of what you said.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I was going to post a comment about how whenever Apple removes a feature or the iPhone doesn't do something all the fanboys suddenly don't want it and never wanted it and it sucked anyway and normal people don't use it and it's better with out... But then I realized you might actually be making a genuine point.
The Apple fan club has made having any kind of serious debate rather difficult.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
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.