Is it just me or does the stand alone YouTube app not have ads in it? I know the mobile site does.
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iOS 6 Beta 4 Removes Dedicated YouTube App [Updated]
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This is an interesting point of view. Whether you are talking about the other major OS on phones, or the fact that up until Apple wanted to start baking in their own maps, it seems they are still HERE in a very real way. Not to mention Google PageRank reinventing how web searches and indexing is done. I realize their position can change, and in the tech world it can happen rather quickly....Take RIM and Blackberry OS as a perfect example. But something else has to come along to replace it, or better it, in order for that to take place.
I like the removal of the app. It will allow Google to improve it and release a better version of the app, and those of us who don't want it can just not download it. As an owner of both iOS and Android devices, that YouTube app sucked ass.
Itunes match!!
For you Itunes Match people you can now ether delete the whole album or just a song. I really hope that in Beta 5 you can choose to single download a song.
For you Itunes Match people you can now ether delete the whole album or just a song. I really hope that in Beta 5 you can choose to single download a song.
That would be one reason why Google wouldn't want the app updated. Which may explain why they wouldn't want it licensed to Apple beyond the initial five years.
I don't recall ads in the app videos. I wonder if Google was pressing Apple to make up for the lost ad revenue. I find the ads on the regular youtube website annoying.
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They are such liars
"We want to ensure that the YouTube experience really sucks on iOS. So we will release the most bastardized and buggiest hunk of junk that Apple will let us get away with and then compare this to our own first-party apps...on Android, of course."
"We want to ensure that the YouTube experience really sucks on iOS. So we will release the most bastardized and buggiest hunk of junk that Apple will let us get away with and then compare this to our own first-party apps...on Android, of course."
Yeah, Google is probably going to include ads in their new iOS app. Apple is happy because they don't have a Google app as a default and Google is happy because they'll be able to show ads.
How? I can't seem to figure that out how to delete anything in the new Music app even on beta 4.
If only...
They would fix the Google search bug that disables the 'Search' button in Safari when using Google search, rather than having to fumble with picking the spy glass icon in the search browser... such a pain!
They would fix the Google search bug that disables the 'Search' button in Safari when using Google search, rather than having to fumble with picking the spy glass icon in the search browser... such a pain!
Or trying to add a word once you've reached the length of the bar. So aggravating.They would fix the Google search bug that disables the 'Search' button in Safari when using Google search, rather than having to fumble with picking the spy glass icon in the search browser... such a pain!
No kidding. At a minimum, let us put it in a freaking folder so I don't have to look at it anymore.
Same as GMail (don't if it improved on recent versions).
But for one, I think the bundled Youtube app sucks.
Now that I use Flipboard to access my Youtube subscriptions and use the browser version inside Filpboard, that looks better.
Now, YouTube on the iPad is a different story, but still quite not up there where you'd expect it.
Hopefully this google app will allow you to have all the features you can find from the full-fledged (read:desktop) version of the site.
I doubt it. It'll most likely be a frontend for the web app like all their others.
Let's have faith
But Protube, except for the "saving to MP3" and so on "extras" (that could be seen as the desktop site with browser add ons), is the same as the mobile version. At least, it seems to me.
Plus, ProTube doesn't even fake the User-Agent, so restricted videos (because of the adds, that I block anyway on the desktop) won't show up.
So it makes it a bit pointless to me (being a Cydia app and all).
Just noticing something a bit off topic; I find it interesting that since MacRumors removed the "-" vote button, members seemed to have stopped voting comments altogether. The complaints about wanting to vote someone down were trifling!
Was a negative vote that important? How about simply voting comments in a thread that are helpful and civil, allowing readers to get right to the point without weeding through hundreds of petty back and forth trite? Negative votes seemed to bully people who may have a valid point but the usual repeat offenders policing the threads decided they didn't approve.
It's amazing, before there were dozens of votes, now barely any.
Was a negative vote that important? How about simply voting comments in a thread that are helpful and civil, allowing readers to get right to the point without weeding through hundreds of petty back and forth trite? Negative votes seemed to bully people who may have a valid point but the usual repeat offenders policing the threads decided they didn't approve.
It's amazing, before there were dozens of votes, now barely any.
HAHAHA...Thanks for the info
Wow....It went right over your head by miles, huh? I think u may be the ONLY person on the planet that doesn't get the joke. Bravo!
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Oh yeah...Double epic face palm.
Looks like Google also wants to squeeze out third-party youtube apps:
http://allthingsd.com/20120806/why-is-apples-youtube-app-disappearing/
So people create and upload all the free content for Google and Google makes money off their efforts by putting intrusive ads on the videos. Yup... Do no evil!
http://allthingsd.com/20120806/why-is-apples-youtube-app-disappearing/
So people create and upload all the free content for Google and Google makes money off their efforts by putting intrusive ads on the videos. Yup... Do no evil!