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The skeuomorphic YouTube icon always looks so chintzy to me. Does anyone know how/why that came to be? Did Google just not care enough about branding at that po
by rhplus 4y ago
The skeuomorphic YouTube icon always looks so chintzy to me. Does anyone know how/why that came to be? Did Google just not care enough about branding at that point to insist on using the real logo?
- spikeagally 4y agoI believe the YouTube app at that time was built by Apple, not by Google. Similar to Maps.
- blamazon 4y agoIf I remember correctly Apple built the app in relative secrecy so that iPhone could open YouTube links at launch without supporting flash, and Google was okay with that because it drove growth in YouTube and Android was in infancy, but the arrangement ended in 2012: https://www.engadget.com/2012-08-06-youtube-app-removed-from-ios-6-ios-5-confirmation-official.html https://www.engadget.com/2012-08-06-youtube-app-removed-from...