YouTube App Removed From iOS 6 Beta4 233
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.'"
Re:Glad to be an Android user.... (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.
Re:Glad to be an Android user.... (Score:5, 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.
Re:customers can use YouTube in the Safari browser (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Life is hotter in the south (Score:3, Informative)
How about iOS developers that need high perfomance javascript in their webviews?
That's unrelated to the issue at hand.
If you need performance in an app, don't use a WebView. You are in an app after all... you have the ability use any native code you like.
Meanwhile enjoy your improperly sandboxed OS of choice that does accelerate WebView equivalents in an app...
Or users that would like to use Opera as their default to open links?
Yes, that limitation should be removed - it would be great to be able to configure alternate web browsers.
Too bad Google doesn't let you chose other providers for alternate transit routing like Apple does in iOS6 though. What Google gives with the one hand, they tale away with the other.
And because a developer restricts API access or doesn't offer a particular API at all doesn't mean it's some "arbitrary decision".
Pardon me, instead of Arbitrary I should have said "because of a choice that Google made in order to try and hurt the iOS platform".
The FACT is that as a developer of applications that use maps I have far more flexibility now in what I can do than I did when Google supplied the map data. The FACT is that as a developer of map based applications I can be integrated alongside the native maps app and called out for when the user is in a specific region.
All of these things are possible because Google is no longer making arbi.... strategic choices about what iOS developers can do relative to Android developers.
Think carefully lest you be hypocritical.
How is it hypocritical to point out that were Google is removed as a controlling entity I have more options as a developer?
Re:thank god (Score:4, 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...