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Google launches official YouTube app for iPhone

Posted: 11 Sep 2012, 03:31, by Alan F.

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Google launches official YouTube app for iPhone

Google has just released an official YouTube application in the App Store today. Unlike the original YouTube client, this one will be ad-supported. YouTube videos already run ads on its mobile site and on the Android app.

Apple iPhone users love watching YouTube videos. According to Nielsen, as recently as June, it was the third most used app, including pre-installed apps and downloadable ones. The YouTube client has been on the phone since its launch in 2007 and was one of the original features that was the center of early iPhone advertisements. But as we told you recently, iOS 6 will not have a YouTube client and while that could be the continuation of Apple's de-Googling of its smartphone (Google Maps is being replaced with Apple's own mapping app), the Mountain View search giant said it was working on a better version of the app for the App Store. Apple blamed an expiring license for this decision to remove the app from iOS 6. As far as the Apple iPad is concerned, Google said it is working on a new YouTube app for the tablet as well.

"We are offering a better user experience to iPhone users. We will now have content parity on all our mobile platforms."- Francisco Varela, YouTube global director of platform partnerships

Google has said that over 1 billion of YouTube's daily video views occur on a mobile device with 4 billion video streamed daily. It was the Apple iPhone that started all this with its launch in 2007 and after that, a YouTube connection turned out to be a feature that mobile phone owners were demanding. Featurephone users started connecting to YouTube's mobile site while some smartphones, like the Windows Mobile flavored HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro had their own YouTube clients. With Google the owner of the site, it obviously made sense to include a YouTube client on Google's open source Android OS.

Having ads on the new YouTube app will allow Apple iPhone users to see some videos that did not previously show up on the device. Certain YouTube contributors block the showing of their video if they cannot be paid from ads. Now that ads will be seen while watching YouTube on the iPhone, the inventory of videos should match what is available for Android users.

Download Google's official YouTube app for iPhone [iTunes link]

source: YouTube blog, HoustonChronicle via Reuters

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1. pikapowerize (banned) posted on 11 Sep 2012, 03:39 5 1

ugh!! hate ads!!!

oppa gangnam style!

10. IamYourFather6657 posted on 11 Sep 2012, 08:37 0 0

Although the old YouTube app was slow , ugly i rather have that because that doesnt have ads

2. rudlie posted on 11 Sep 2012, 03:49 0 2

refers to Michael Heller article. u right, Mr. Heller. new youtube app is suck!

3. Seymour posted on 11 Sep 2012, 03:50 8 0

Good Guy Google

6. nnaatthhaannx2 posted on 11 Sep 2012, 06:30 1 0

Yeah, litter that iOS trash with ads!

11. IamYourFather6657 posted on 11 Sep 2012, 08:38 0 0

hey panda , dont flame wars
Feeling sad that everytime i use Youtube on my ipod touch
cause its annoying enough on my nexus

14. nnaatthhaannx2 posted on 11 Sep 2012, 20:33 0 0

I wasn't attempting to flame a war, but I guess how it looks like so.
I'm just sad how google hasn't finished their Google Navigation project that they started with android yet, and its been quite awhile. It is truely depressing that it is still not up to par.

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15. IamYourFather6657 posted on 12 Sep 2012, 01:07 0 0

It's in beta right ? Like most google products
But anyway my iOS devices are great for YouTube cause no pentile and no ads
But guess that's about to change
Mainly using my iPad but I bought the iPod touch because I like the design and I use it so that my nexus could last 1 day +

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4. dickwyn posted on 11 Sep 2012, 03:56 1 0

cant wait to see the iPad app

5. aokde posted on 11 Sep 2012, 04:10 0 2

better than killing a person, is making him sorry. google is not killing the youtube app completely, it's making ios users feel sorry for buying an idevice.

Google i love you, marry me?

7. good2great posted on 11 Sep 2012, 07:41 0 0

thanks Google!

i'll be downloading this tomorrow...

8. vicorama posted on 11 Sep 2012, 07:45 0 0

Apple will find some way to sue...

9. darkkjedii posted on 11 Sep 2012, 08:05 0 0

Good move googer

12. codymws posted on 11 Sep 2012, 17:43 0 0

Windows Phone next?

13. darkkjedii posted on 11 Sep 2012, 19:20 0 0

The new you tube app rocks for ios

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