App Info : Apple to drop YouTube in iPhone, iPad update

Apple Inc. said Google Inc.'s YouTube won't
be included in the next version of the software used in the iPhone and iPad, the latest evidence of escalating competition between the two companies.

Apple has featured YouTube as a core
application since the iPhone debuted in 2007. As Google has pushed into the market with its
Android software -- now the most-used
smartphone operating system -- the
relationship between the two companies frayed.

Apple also plans to replace Google's maps
application with its own in the next iOS release.
"Their two ecosystems are pulling away from
each other," Carl Howe, an analyst at Yankee
Group, said yesterday. "This is two companies
agreeing they just don't want to work together
anymore." Users will see the effects when the
next version of Apple's mobile software, called
iOS 6, is rolled out later this year. A license
expired that let the company include YouTube,
Trudy Muller, a spokeswoman for Cupertino,
California-based Apple, said yesterday. As a
result, the YouTube app won't come pre-
installed on future iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
releases or if a user downloads iOS 6 to
existing devices.

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