“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.'”
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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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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
Vimeo is better anyway.
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.
Who’s Nick Wingfiled? Any relation to the tech writer, Nick Wingfield? Just curious…
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.
Of course idiot….
A good artist copies and a great artist steals. Steve Jobs
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Vimeo can compete if Apple says they can.
Fanboy: Anyone who discovered Macintosh before offstonypoint.
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.
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.
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.
Oh well.
I bet it will be back, in some form.
Yup.
Go Go Gadget Vimeo!
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.
What part of Korea are you from?
what part of the 60’s south are you from?
pretty sure his reply isn’t racially based, but “factually” based. Samsung is a Korean conglomerate. Hence, the Lorean snarkiness.
“brake” free? Really? Yikes
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.
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?!?
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.
Google will have an app for YouTube, not to worry.
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.
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)
If it confirms I don’t upgrade until YouTube be available again!
Adios, MFer.
Later! Nice not knowing you
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.
Maybe because the powerful partners always screw them over!
Your not taking this news well, are you? Perhaps you should rest your head on your desk.
new headline: License to use YouTube in OS 6 expires.
‘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
I just tried to delete You Tube from my iPhone but it wouldn’t let me.
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?
good one I like it LOL.
While laughing, let’s add:
Apple: How’s the trademark on our new iOS video sharing social network, Pvng, coming along?
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.
Something tells me this little story encapsulates a lot of truth!
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!
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…….
Google apps are shit. Got lucky with a search algorithm and been leeching ever since. Going the way of the dodo.
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.
Awesome! Cut all ties with with backstabbers.
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.
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!
To those lamenting this “loss” remember that the app is years old, and everything it does runs great in the browser anyway. No dedicated app is required.
I LOVE you Apple. Good move. Crush Google without mercy.
We need our blood back. Stupid vampires. Fight blood with blood for blood.
YouTube on iOS has served its purpose; changing the online video tide from Flash to HTML 5. Time for the Apple/Google arrangement to lapse. The end game is to obviate the need for anything Google in the iOS ecosphere.
Makes no difference to me. You tube is better used troughs safari anyway.
Apple should develop their own video streaming app that stream videos from all the main channels, including you tube, Vimeo etc – just like apple tv.
Speaking of apple tv, I bet you tube will. Amish from that soon too.
Google will bring their own app to the store which will be far superior without Apple restrictions.
Apple is dumb downing the iPhone even further with its own Maps and no Youtube app… LOL
I feel for iOS users! All of them.
Let the war begin! GO GOOGLE GO!
Lol @ superior. All those ads will be awesome!
Joel is happy. Android is finally getting YouTube.
Pssst! Joel, nobody uses their real name on the internet.
Damn! Now I have to change my iPhone refrigerator magnets.
The suggestion that Google wouldn’t want to license YouTube and have te YouTube app pre-installed on the iPhone just doesn’t make sense. You are forgetting that Google is an advertising company and that is where all their money comes from. This is clearly a deliberate attack from Apple and I agree with Apple’s move. Of course there will be a YouTube app in the App Store. Why should a Google service be pre-installed on iPhones and iPads? Apple doesn’t pre-install other popular apps for you. Google went from a partner to a competitor and now they must live with those consequences. Consumers can simply download the app if they choose from now on.
Hahah ppl sticking up for apple as if they are gonna get paid for it. Google an apple make money from u lot. So dose it matter, the big exec play golf toghther and u lot fighting over it, I love you tube and if apple don’t want to include it fair play as long as I get an app from the app strore from google, job done I’m happy apples happy and googles happy what the hell u guys crying over
@MDN Ed: pretty sure Apple didn’t write two complete sentences and stick a comma between them.
I actually prefer the browser version of YouTube on my iPad than the default app. It has MUCH more functionality.
I have just accessed You tube in Safari Browser Opted for add to home screen.A very Nice Icon appears on the iPad with a Youtube Motif. Access to Youtube easy and satisfactory
This isn’t about solutions, it’s about whining and no one does it better than switchers, who are jaded by the PC platform’s swiss-army-knife approach to computing; give them everything they’re asking for, then let them sort it all out with 1-800-HELP.
They come into this camp not wanting to look too stupid, so they immediately start asking the tough questions like, Hey! Don’t you cromags even have a YouTube app around here? Frickin’ morons.
I think this will end up being good for both Apple and Google (services from both companies I use daily). For YouTube fans, this will be great. The baked-in iOS YouTube app (created and maintained by Apple), will get much better now that it’s in Google’s hands. If users don’t like the app, they can still view it in mobile Safari. Google will finally get to serve ads via their iOS YouTube app, and Apple won’t have to maintain the YouTube iOS app. Win-win-win!
Forget Vimeo. Let’s have a DailyMotion app! They allow boobies!
——RM
Youtube in Safari is way faster & looks better than the Default Youtube app. I bet the Youtube app that Google will make for iOS 6, would be better.