iOS 6 Beta 4 Removes Dedicated YouTube App [Updated]

[bartszyszka]

This benefits no one.

It benefits every single video provider that competes with YouTube. And also lets Google release updates and develop it without having to work as closely with Apple, which benefits Google if they would prefer to release a product with their vision instead of Apple's.

 

[sazivad]

The icon for that thing was really quite terrible.

 

[heisenberg123]

the app was only good if you like watching your youtube videos load 3 seconds at a time, using the website through safari is much better

 

[Frost17]

It won't be missed.

 

[Blorzoga]

It's too bad the Newsstand app is not also Google's, so they could get rid of that one too.

 

[foodog]

I'm glad to see this happening - there's no need to force people to have apps on their homescreens that they might not use.

I wish you could remove any or all of them..... moving them into a folder on the last page works ok too.

 

[MacFly123]

This makes sense. Apple is moving away from Google and it makes no sense for Apple to develop this on their behalf anyway. Google will develop their own official YouTube app and that is how it should be.

Apple's YouTube app didn't have every feature you might want BUT it was very nicely designed! So I hope Google does a really good job designing and implementing their app and I hope they get it on the App Store without a huge delay after iOS 6 comes out! Oh... and it better be universal!

P.S. THIS IS THE TIME to implement HTML5 mobile ads for all the YouTubers Google! Don't blow it.

 

[yodayoda]

That screenshot aint the real default. Passbook was always on the home screen from iOS 6 Beta 1. Youtube was never on the 1st page in any of the iOS 6 betas. Passbook is prob on his 2nd screen..

 

[dontwalkhand]

Good riddance! This app has never performed well anyways and gotten to the point where no matter what you press something has to error out.

Posting comments doesn't always work, YouTube not available always would pop up and so forth.

 

[foodog]

This benefits no one.

It benefits me, the app sucked. Google will release their own and if I want it I can have it.

 

[smarch]

haha.. i love all of the newsstand hate. It's all funny and seems pretty universal.

Old media is dead. Nobody cares about a magazine anymore.

 

[Westside guy]

I prefer having apps I can remove from my phone, if I choose - so this is good news for me.

Now if Apple would only let me remove other superfluous apps like "Stocks" and "Newstand", I'd be a happy camper.

 

[george-brooks]

That app has been useless for a long time. It was only really nice in the first couple of versions of iOS when you couldn't play embedded videos.

 

[jclardy]

This benefits no one.

The YouTube app has barely changed since the iPhone was released five years ago. Those who want YouTube can download it from the App Store when available, and Google can actively maintain it unlike the current YouTube app which can only be updated with an entire OS update.

Google's track record for iOS apps hasn't been great, but in the other cases they were building from scratch. In this case they at least have an idea of how a usable interface behaves.

 

[iMacFarlane]

Good job reducing the bloat. No need for this to be an app anyway, just use the web for youtube. Or a computer, really.

 

[cocky jeremy]

Good. No more wasting up space on my phone, or wasting time trying to hide it in a folder. It was useless and slow anyway, i always used the mobile version on Safari.

 

[neilmcd]

I never use the app to watch videos, but I use 'Send to YouTube' via the photos app quite a lot. Can you still do that?

 

[AppleScruff1]

Get ready for iTube, where for only .99 each you can watch the videos, YOU want to watch. It will be revolutionary.

 

[Digipimp]

thank you, one less piece of **** on my phone

 

[Dangerous Theory]

The shoddiest app to be forced on iDevices. Ugly icon is a turn off enough, then you open and start to use the app and realise how basic it is, and then you start a video and realise it's unwatchable. That app's usefulness spread ne further than searching for a song you didn't own.

 

[Yvan256]

YouTube supports HTML5

No need for Flash for a dedicated app.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Too bad the damn thing doesn't work 99% of the time.

I almost always get "This video is currently unavailable" on my Mac. But if I switch my user agent to "iPad", the video magically works 90% of the time.

 

[Dr McKay]

Yeah. I don't see Android coming pre-installed with a crappy version of iTunes (not that Apple would ever allow that)

You never know, Apple wanted to make iTunes on Android, it was Steve Jobs who was so against it. They've been doing a few things that Steve said no to now he's dead.

 

[eezing]

I don't get it... Apple, you are starting to suck more and more.

 

[smarch]

I don't get it... Apple, you are starting to suck more and more.

This is evidence of That? don't think so.

 

[ConnYoungy]

I wont be updating until google release a dedicated app. They should get rid of stocks and the compass instead