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Apple removes Google’s YouTube app from iOS 6

Monday, August 6, 2012 · 3:45 pm · 69 Comments

“On Monday, Apple released a new test version of its upcoming iOS 6 operating system, the software that powers iPads and iPhones, and developers quickly noticed that the app for YouTube had vanished,” Nick Wingfiled reports for The New York Times. “The change was noteworthy because the YouTube app has been included with iOS since Apple released the original iPhone in 2007.”

Wingfiled reports, “Apple released the following statement about YouTube’s fate: ‘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.’”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Another default conduit to 365 million iOS devices and rapidly counting – poof! How ya like dem Apples, Google?

Even better would be a default public video sharing app in iOS 6 for one of Google’s competitors. Vimeo, perhaps?

Google’s going to rue the day they got greedy by deciding to try to work against Apple instead of with them. – MacDailyNews Take, March 09, 2010

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IMADEAFUNNY

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:50 pm · Reply

WHAT??? NOOO!!! The YouTube app is what I used the most! If you’re going to do this, apple, then add fame version of flash! It’s the only thing that really made me not miss flash!! TOO far, apple! TOO far!!!!!!!

/end of rant
- DeRS
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:54 pm · Reply
  
  Vimeo is better anyway.
  - leodavinci1
    
    Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:57 pm · Reply
    
    I don’t care at all for Vimeo as you can”t download their videos. Being able to access something online is not always an option.
    - Jeff II
      
      Monday, August 6, 2012 - 5:51 pm · Reply
      
      Who’s Nick Wingfiled? Any relation to the tech writer, Nick Wingfield? Just curious…
- x
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:04 pm · Reply
  
  Well you are out of luck. Google can take it right up the ass. Glad the app is flushed down the stinking commode with the rest of Google feces. Next comes Samsung lying ass dog copying ways using Google shit Android.
  - Pat
    
    Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:43 pm · Reply
    
    Of course idiot….
    
    A good artist copies and a great artist steals. Steve Jobs
    - Mike Aware
      
      Monday, August 13, 2012 - 4:20 pm · Reply
      
      No matter how many times people explain the context of the statement, you continue to misuse it. You only demonstrate your bias, at best or your stupidity, at worse. But either way you are the one who looks like an idiot.
- Predrag
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:05 pm · Reply
  
  Too far, Apple???
  
  YouTube belongs to Google; not Apple. If Google won’t extend that license, it is entirely Google’s fault.
  
  Besides, you don’t use a special desktop application (on Mac or Windows) to watch YouTube, do you? In other words, you can always use your web browser to watch YouTube videos (they have all been transcoded into HTML5-compatible MPEG4 a few years ago).
  
  Also, since there are two more months until iOS6 comes out, it is more than likely that Google will finish development (and Apple will quickly approve) Google’s own proprietary free YouTube app.
  
  It is obvious that Apple and Google negotiated initial 5-year license for YouTube on iOS. That license has expired and for obvious reasons, the two companies don’t want to extend it.
  - offstonypoint
    
    Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:26 pm · Reply
    
    Where does it say Google won’t extend the license? Get real man. I’m a apple fanboy too, but you guys are truly blinded by it.
    - Predrag
      
      Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:32 pm · Reply
      
      I’m not sure how you are reading “fanboyism” from this.
      
      Anyone with a cursory knowledge of Google’s and Apple’s recent history and battles in mobile space will know very well why Google wouldn’t want to extend that license. Why on earth would they want to be at the mercy of Apple’s developers if they can develop that YouTube app by themselves? I don’t know what were the terms of the original license agreement, but I’m sure it didn’t require Apple to put Google’s ads anywhere near that YouTube app. Now that Google is developing it, they can put whatever kind of data collecting code into it, pepper it with ads and update it at their own pace. They are finally getting their egg-laying hen back from Apple. The eggs may not be golden, but still…
      - offstonypoint
        
        Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:41 pm · Reply
        
        Interesting hypothesis, but still conjecture. Please don’t play it off as fact. We get enough of that on the internet and does nothing for your cred.
        
        and btw, Vimeo is cool but cannot compete with YouTube content.
        
        spyintheskyuk
        
        Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 5:27 am · Reply
        
        and where does it say that they will extend the licence. If we are being objective its best to be completely objective. Fact is none of us know the truth of the matter.
        
        G4Dualie
        
        Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 9:40 am · Reply
        
        Vimeo can compete if Apple says they can.
        
        Fanboy: Anyone who discovered Macintosh before offstonypoint.
    - HTML5 Gordon
      
      Monday, August 6, 2012 - 6:13 pm · Reply
      
      You’re right, Apple has likely refused to pay Google to renew the license – I wouldn’t give the thieves any more money either. I’m sure Google was more than willing to renew.
    - Bizlaw
      
      Monday, August 6, 2012 - 6:28 pm · Reply
      
      I agree with Predrag: Google very likely wanted to control the development of the YouTube app, and didn’t want to be limited by Apple. So it may have made the licensing fees excessive, or refused to renew, or whatever, but it really won’t matter — you can watch YouTube videos in Safari, or Google will have its own YouTube app.
- HTML5 Gordon
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 6:11 pm · Reply
  
  You *do* realize that you can play YouTube videos in Safari just fine without Flash just as you did in the YouTube app, right? YouTube has encoded in h.264 which is why the app worked in the first place.
  
  And… unless you are running the latest beta (it is downloading to my iPhone as we speak) then you have nothing to worry about – I’m sure Google will have the app in the AppStore when iOS 6 goes public.
  
  Much ado about nothing, but WONDERFUL to see Apple sticking it to Google. Many people won’t ever download the app. Take that Google.
Sucker

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:50 pm · Reply

Oh well.
Shan

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:50 pm · Reply

I bet it will be back, in some form.
- Weekend
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:59 pm · Reply
  
  Yup.
LloydX

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:52 pm · Reply

Go Go Gadget Vimeo!
Tack

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:52 pm · Reply

The time is quickly coming to brake free of apples choke hold. If only I hadn’t spent a few thousand dollars in iTunes it would be so much easier to make the move. I well hopefully the new iPhone won’t be a total let down.
- silverhawk1
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:58 pm · Reply
  
  What part of Korea are you from?
  - Piccio
    
    Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:05 pm · Reply
    
    what part of the 60′s south are you from?
    - Mike
      
      Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:55 pm · Reply
      
      pretty sure his reply isn’t racially based, but “factually” based. Samsung is a Korean conglomerate. Hence, the Lorean snarkiness.
- JBTipton
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:46 pm · Reply
  
  “brake” free? Really? Yikes
- HTML5 Gordon
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 6:14 pm · Reply
  
  What “choke hold”? The fact that the app won’t come pre-loaded and you’ll have to download it like you do other apps? Oh, the agony.
- Bizlaw
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 6:30 pm · Reply
  
  What are you talking about? Just because Apple won’t develop a new YouTube app, but is letting Google develop it, while at the same time making iOS Safari able to play YouTube videos? THAT is the last straw for you? Really?!?
- G4Dualie
  
  Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 9:52 am · Reply
  
  Fscking liar!
  
  You haven’t spent a hundred dollars much less a few grand. Specious claims and an iPod Nano doesn’t make you an Apple user, only a pathetic loser who’s life is uninteresting, so they invent one.
  
  Today its name Tack. How sad.
Currentinterest

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:53 pm · Reply

Google will have an app for YouTube, not to worry.
wzinc

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:53 pm · Reply

This could be:
- a mistake
- a temporary beta issue – i.e. QuickTime pro always on in OS X betas
- because YouTube has HTML 5, so the app is unnecessary

It may not be a stab at Google. MDN take is still right, though.
- FTB
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 6:18 pm · Reply
  
  im betting on one of those.
  
  As long as the YouTube.com site works in safari, and doesn’t redirect me to the app store to get the app… (if apple removes it and google makes a YouTube app)
João Santos

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:54 pm · Reply

If it confirms I don’t upgrade until YouTube be available again!
- CupertinoJoe
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 6:00 pm · Reply
  
  Adios, MFer.
- MacHeadB
  
  Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 12:21 pm · Reply
  
  Later! Nice not knowing you
offstonypoint

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:54 pm · Reply

No built in You Tube app on iPads, iPhones and maybe Apple TV. Bad for us end users, not Google! Really bummed about this. Apple has powerful partnerships with almost no one.
- Tommyboy
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:02 pm · Reply
  
  Maybe because the powerful partners always screw them over!
- G4Dualie
  
  Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 9:59 am · Reply
  
  Your not taking this news well, are you? Perhaps you should rest your head on your desk.
Tetrachloride

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:54 pm · Reply

new headline: License to use YouTube in OS 6 expires.
tbone

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 3:54 pm · Reply

‘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.’”

So what part of this perfectly logical explanation do you not understand?

If you’re running iOS 6 and you aren’t a developer, shame on you
silverhawk1

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:00 pm · Reply

I just tried to delete You Tube from my iPhone but it wouldn’t let me.
xil

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:07 pm · Reply

Apple: You mean our license is expired
Google: Yeah, but here is anothe…. (Click)
Apple: Phone hangs up, Champagne corks fly.
Google: Did they just hang up on us?
- Jose
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:13 pm · Reply
  
  good one I like it LOL.
- Jim
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:56 pm · Reply
  
  While laughing, let’s add:
  
  Apple: How’s the trademark on our new iOS video sharing social network, Pvng, coming along?
- Chris
  
  Monday, August 6, 2012 - 5:15 pm · Reply
  
  One of the best posts of the year. So funny lmfao
  
  iPad 1 so no update for me. Yeh!!!
  
  this beautiful device shouldn’t slow down any further from now on.
- aaAttendee
  
  Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 4:55 am · Reply
  
  Something tells me this little story encapsulates a lot of truth!
ChiMac

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:09 pm · Reply

I can’t believe the amount of crying going on over Apple breaking free from Google who has gone out of their way to knife Apple in the back every chance they get. If you want it that bad then download it from the App store. But, if your loyalty to Google is so strong that you demand You Tube as a preloaded feature, then don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!
DaLopez87

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:12 pm · Reply

No worries, just wait for the app to be release by google or just wait for the jailbreak for iOS 6 to be release and download MxTube…….
Yoyo

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:17 pm · Reply

Google apps are shit. Got lucky with a search algorithm and been leeching ever since. Going the way of the dodo.
Johnny Appleseed

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:18 pm · Reply

Nothing to see here but a license expiry. Despite what MDN would like to believe, Apple puts its user experience ahead of petty corporate revenge. It’s just good business sense.
chefpastry

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:20 pm · Reply

Awesome! Cut all ties with with backstabbers.
bbock

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:28 pm · Reply

So how long before Apple shoots itself in the head and eliminates Google Search in their browser? All this chest beating is ridiculous and it forgets what is most important: the customers. It’s like when your cable or satellite company gets into a pissing match with a channel provider by dropping it over negotiated terms, and then they both harangue you to annoy the other one to get the channel back. All you want to do is pay your bill and watch TV, but they want to stick you in the middle. Screw them both on this.
mountainprepper

Monday, August 6, 2012 - 4:35 pm · Reply

Great news, Google has reverted to censoring YouTube content, has gone out of it’s way to re-route news channels to focus on established (whorish) media. A very sneaky way to smother the small news channels and political commentary.

Let Google and YouTube rot from their own stupidity!