YouTube app won't be pre-loaded on iOS 6 devices

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A couple of months ago, Apple announced it would have its own mobile map app for iOS 6, dumping its previous support for Google Maps. Now yet another well known Google made app won't be available out of the box for iOS 6-based devices when Apple launches the next update for its OS later this year.

Bloomberg reports that, according to a spokesperson from Apple, the iOS YouTube app won't be pre-loaded for iOS 6. The spokesperson confirmed, "Our license to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended." There is no word why Apple and Google decided to end their license.

That doesn't mean that the YouTube iOS app is going away completely. Apple's spokesperson did confirm, "Google is working on a new YouTube app to be on the App Store." YouTube videos can also still be accessed from the iOS version of the Safari web browser.

The rumors about the YouTube app started on the message board on MacRumors.com, which noted that the latest beta build of iOS 6 sent to developers did not have the app included. The YouTube app has been available as a standard pre-loaded and installed app since Apple launched the first iPhone back in 2007.

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Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/youtube-app-wont-be-pre-loaded-on-ios-6-devices

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MazurPosted:

Supremic Hopefully they change the picture of the app.

That T.V looks ghetto.


how does it look ghetto? TV's used to look kinda like that for a while....
the app picture has been the same probably since the iPhone 1 made it's debut

TTG_ZymicPosted:

Minecart
Supremic Hopefully they change the picture of the app.

That T.V looks ghetto.


I could careless about the picture.

The app itself is slow and irritating... Atleast for me it is..


Exactly^^
it is slow and irritating just rather use the website and its way faster

TTG_ZymicPosted:

THANK YOU WHEN I FIRST BOUGHT MY IPOD TOUCH 4TH GEN IT NEVER WORKED OR LOADED AND IT TAKES FOREVER TO LOAD A VIDEO

ImxJ399Posted:

Honestly ill miss the YouTube the most efficient ways while on the go I could watch movie or shows when im bored. That better make s new app that fixes my bored on Tue go situations

EmazedPosted:

Minecart
Supremic Hopefully they change the picture of the app.

That T.V looks ghetto.


I could careless about the picture.

The app itself is slow and irritating... Atleast for me it is..

Yeah the picture of the app doesn't bother me either, I just hope if they are making a new YouTube app then I hope there are some improvments to it.

PeetzuhPosted:

Supremic Hopefully they change the picture of the app.

That T.V looks ghetto.


I could careless about the picture.

The app itself is slow and irritating... Atleast for me it is..

SmurfsPosted:

Supremic Hopefully they change the picture of the app.

That T.V looks ghetto.


Yeah I'm pretty sure the Youtube app has always had the same icon so a change would be nice.

SupremicPosted:

Hopefully they change the picture of the app.

That T.V looks ghetto.

EmazedPosted:

Smurfs
Limb That's just stupid
Last they removed the weather app and the clock app on the iPad
But yet we have the newsstand app


Yeah the newstand app is just a waste of memory, and what really sucks is that you cant put it in a folder.

Yeah I hardly even use that app.

FMCPosted:

Really stupid on Apple's part. Although you can just use Safari for youtube.


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