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Official YouTube App for iPhone & iPod Touch Released, Grab It Before iOS 6

I read on Ars that AirPlay doesn't work and it has ads. Until I can check it out for myself, from what I can tell all we gain is a Google+ like interface and lose iPad support.

I say: :thumbsdown:

Removing the YouTube app is my least favorite part of iOS 6.
 
No AirPlay? Screw it, I'll keep using the mobile site then. That at least I can use to access my Watch Later list (though it only loads so many at a time) and AirPlay it to my big screen.
 
TubeBox, my friends, TubeBox. If YouTube was never removed, I would never have found it. It's a few bucks, and it lets you play YouTube videos and it even can download them so you can play them offline. (Though you can't get them out of the app.)
 
Steelbom said:
TubeBox, my friends, TubeBox. If YouTube was never removed, I would never have found it. It's a few bucks, and it lets you play YouTube videos and it even can download them so you can play them offline. (Though you can't get them out of the app.)
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MiTube. =]
 
Not bad I like it. It does the side swiping thing that Facebook and Sparrow does and that gets a thumbs up from me.
 
I haven't really played with it yet since I rarely watch YouTube on my phone. There's no iPad version yet. Hearing about ads turned me off though. I get that ads are needed to pay for the service. I work in the media industry and ads are how I makes me livings. Though video ads are just wrong on mobile devices, which have strict data caps. It's like fax spam. Use someone else's resources to propagate your advertising. Unobtrusive banner ads are okay, which is what my company uses.

Truth be known there was nothing wrong with the default app. It lacked features but it worked, and worked well. Especially on the iPad. Never really had a problem with it. And it was ad free. Removing Google Maps had been a colossal pain as well. Our traffic app had to be rewritten to work with iOS Maps, which is arguably inferior in its current form. Apple's war with Google has gone beyond silly at this point. Such that they'd rather deliver an inferior product. There's really nothing in iOS 6 that I'm really excited for. Guess I'll just stick with iOS 5 for now, until a Jailbreak comes out and adds back the missing features.
 
I heard that they put their own map app in because the map API license from Google stated that they could not implement turn-by-turn directions. So, what could they do but renegotiate their licensing terms or go with their own app?
 
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