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Apple gave a statement to The Verge, which basically says their licence from Google expired: "our license to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended". I know
by objclxt 14y ago
Apple gave a statement to The Verge, which basically says their licence from Google expired: "our license to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended".
I know Google are hiring iOS software engineers for YouTube right now in London, so I'm sure there will be some official native offering appearing in the future.
- siglesias 14y agoOf course one would imagine that the date of expiration was known at the time they announced iOS 6 with YouTube in it.
- addlepate 14y agoWhen did they announce that?
- siglesias 14y agoiOS 6 was announced at WWDC on 11 June this year.
- shinratdr 14y agoThey never mentioned YouTube on stage though, it just wasn't yet removed from the developer previews. That's like saying Apple advertised Mountain Lion as having the 32-bit kernel because it was present in DP1. I have little doubt they were planning to remove it the entire time and it just wasn't a high priority issue until the license expired in between beta 3 and beta 4.
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoI'm guessing that either they were in negotiations for a potential renewal / extension to the license or (far more likely) they didn't want headlines about their feud with Google taking attention away from the product announcement.
- smackfu 14y agoOr more likely, "we chose not to renew our license".