RIP YouTube iPhone App, 2007-2012 — Why You Won’t Be Missed

Back when the iPhone first launched, there was a joke about the YouTube app on it. One nerd, or tech reviewer, would describe it as a "dumbed-down YouTube experience." To which another would shoot back: "is that even possible?"

Well, here we are, five years later. YouTube the service has gotten a whole lot stronger and smarter in so many ways (as well as a whole lot dumber in some of its corners -- something which turns out to be exceedingly and eternally possible).

But the iPhone app, even transplanted to the iPad, has stayed exactly as dumb as it always was. It'll find the YouTube content you want a third of the time, if you're lucky. They should call it YouRoulette, because…
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