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masklinn on Aug 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: War? YouTube app disappears from iOS 6 beta 4 as A...

> [I] didn't really get why there was a YouTube app

Because back in 2007 there was no such thin as "HTML5 video", and youtube was already the most popular video site by a pretty long shot. So they built that one in via a dedicated application.

nickm12 on Aug 6, 2012 [–]

Back in 2007 there wasn't even an App Store. There would have been no way to watch YouTube videos on the iPhone at all without it.

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