This is one of the best decisions Apple has made. We will get a better iOS youtube app with updates directly from Google.
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So Apple removes Youtube...
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Just found out that Apple's license to include the app has expired. I have a feeling Google's app is still going to have a sub-par interface, but I hope they prove me wrong. Until then, I guess I'll use the mobile website. I just find it somewhat awkward navigating it in Safari.
Youtube is not coming back. Apple just announced that they are dropping it, per the Verge and Bloomberg News
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/6/3223775/apple-youtube-ios6
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/6/3223775/apple-youtube-ios6
Um, okay. So if we lose the ability to make Google our default search will you defend that as well?
Seriously, you are missing the point. Losing a YouTube app is like losing the Maps app... a step backwards (at the very least temporarily).
What you and many others characterize as a necessary separation from Google, I call a worsened user experience for myself and millions of others... at least in the short term.
I disagree. The YouTube app let me access channel subscriptions and rate videos without having to be signed into an account in Safari all the time, leaving Google to track my every move on the web via advertising.
Hopefully the new YouTube app will be coming soon, and it would be nice if it had playlist support.
Though, does this mean that YouTube links won't open in the app any more?
Never understood why Apple was building and maintaining an app for a competitor's service to begin with. Makes about as much sense as them building a dedicated Hotmail client.
Add me to the list of others who preferred the web version of Youtube to the iOS app as well.
Add me to the list of others who preferred the web version of Youtube to the iOS app as well.
I disagree. The YouTube app let me access channel subscriptions and rate videos without having to be signed into an account in Safari all the time, leaving Google to track my every move on the web via advertising.
Hopefully the new YouTube app will be coming soon, and it would be nice if it had playlist support.
Though, does this mean that YouTube links won't open in the app any more?
I would guess not. Obviously not for now since there is no app... and even when Google puts an iOS app out, I can't imagine the link getting pulled up in that app. The only things that have been "integrated" with iOS that I can think of are facebook and twitter... Apple is going the opposite direction with YouTube (and other Google products).
If they take away Google as an option for default search, I'll be saying adios to the iPhone.
As opposed to Apple who cares so much about customer satisfaction that they are forcing us to put up with an inferior Maps and YouTube user experience than those that Google offers, right?
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Jailbreak. ProTube. Sorted.
True... though one of the things I like about iOS is that I don't have to jailbreak to have a really good user experience. With an Android, I feel like I'm almost forced to root my phone to get a good experience... and that is a big turn off.
Clearly I do since I posted about it, calm down.
In any event Apple just made an announcement about it.
Good point.
ProTube is a great app though, and I'm not a fan of jailbreaking either. It's possibly, along with Zephyr, the one "tweak" that makes me want to jailbreak.
Yeah, that would be my assumption as well; links will probably always open in Safari even if you get the new app.
I'd be happy for them to remove Google as a search option, if it meant that you could enter a custom search url. (which would let you use Google again, or any other service of your choosing)
Right now the selection in iOS sucks, it's either Google, Bing, or Bing. (with a Yahoo skin)
How does YouTube compete with Apple? Have they started up a new video site I'm not aware of?
I disagree completely. I think that most of the stock apps should go the same way. iOS stock apps should be absolute bare bones apps and everything else should come from the AppStore. iOS is getting so cluttered up with useless stock apps that can't be removed it's ridiculous. Put all that garbage on the AppStore and let people who want them, download it, otherwise keep everything streamlined.
I don't need my iOS device to have every app in the world on it out of the box, give me Mail/Safari/Calender and maybe a few of the others, but get rid of all the rest.
Your example of removing google as a search engine is ridiculous and not even close to the same. There is no way to add search engines to safari on iOS, so if they took it away you couldn't get it back. There is an AppStore so if you take the stock app away you could get another YouTube app back, and more than likely a much better one.
I hate YouTube. Lots of bad stuff on there which is why I never visit it or even have it bookmarked. Won't miss it one bit and I won't download the new version off the App Store.
That was a pretty bad UI for Google to be wanting to piggyback off of. I think it's just that Apple didn't let Google make an app that was baked in, and Apple had to do it.
But seriously ... WHAT exactly is there to update?
- Ability to watch ALL submitted videos on iOS devices & via mobile browsers?!?
(LONG overdue and Google seems to be still clutching the Flash-nutsack)!
Please direct all discussions on iOS 6 and the YouTube app removal here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1418942/
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