I don't think Apple has any interest in social networks (and that's effectively what YouTube is these days) The risk to reward ratio for the brand itself is no

I don't think Apple has any interest in social networks (and that's effectively what YouTube is these days) The risk to reward ratio for the brand itself is not something they'd want to undertake. You see it all the time with other tech stories. If Apple does something bad or is even associated with something bad, that is standard across other tech companies too, the news articles will focus on Apple. Imagine that with user posted comments. Google can get away with it because they have YouTube under a separate brand, and they've established that it's looser. Apple would never want to do it as a separate brand if they can help it (beats and FileMaker not withstanding because they existed prior) and the amount of vitriol that the brand would receive over any contentious content would negate any benefit.