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[ahi]

I got my first iOS device only 2 months ago and didn't really get why there was a YouTube app. Seemed like a generic corporate tie up.

[masklinn → ahi]

> [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 → masklinn]

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.

[shinratdr → ahi]

Hardly, it's just that in 2007 YouTube and online video were basically synonymous. You didn't really have one without the other.