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New App: Google Launches YouTube App Ahead of iOS 6 Schedule

New App: Google Launches YouTube App Ahead of iOS 6 Schedule
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While this isn't an issue until iOS6, when the YouTube app will no longer be part of Apple's mobile operating system, Google has just released a standalone YouTube app for the iPhone. An iPad version should be coming soon.

On one level, it’s just a new app. But YouTube’s mobile usage is large and growing – 1bn mobile views a day at the moment, with a big chunk of them coming from music videos. As Google and Apple’s fractured relationship continues to splinter, it matters to the music industry how YouTube is accessed on iOS devices.
Rob LeFebvre
Rob LeFebvre
Dad. Mac head. Ukulele nerd. Gamer. Rob lives in Anchorage, Alaska, and commutes daily to the intarwebs to edit and write about iOS, Mac, books, and video games. He is currently employed as the editor at 148Apps, the best gosh-darn iPhone site this side of Mars, and contributes freelance to various other sites, including Cult of Mac and VentureBeat. Somehow he still finds time to play in a Disco band, raise two amazing kids, and hang on to his day job.