A day before the very probable iOS6 launch, Google has released it’s standalone, native YouTube app for the iPhone. No universal version yet, but the iPhone version is much closer to the Android installment, than the YouTube iOS app we know and/or love since 2007. The icon has also changed to reflect the google approach, so instead of a skeumorphically Apple’y tv, it now just shows the YouTube logo. It also doesn’t work with iOS older than 4.3, so iPhone 3G users are kinda stuck with the original YouTube app forever. Hopefully it’ll still work after tomorrow.
The new design is actually better and easier to use, so maybe it’s not all bad that YouTube is missing from the stock iOS. Plus that’ll enable Google to do more frequent updates and keep the app on par with the Android version.
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You can get the new app
on the App Store