No YouTube on iPhone 5

Apple and YouTube end their relationship

Apple Inc's new version of its iPhone and iPad software will not include a pre-loaded app for Google Inc's popular video website, YouTube, Apple said on Monday.

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It was the latest sign of the growing rivalry between the technology companies the once were closely aligned but now are vying for supremacy in the fast-growing mobile computing market.

Earlier this year, Apple said it would dump Google's mapping software from its mobile devices.


"Apple and Google are the mobile operating systems for the future and this is where the battleground is going to lie," said Needham & Co analyst Kerry Rice.

"If it's going to be a two-horse race, you certainly don't want to give the other horse any kind of lead," he said.

Google, the world's No.1 Web search engine, is also the maker of the most popular smartphone software with its Android operating system

Apple said in a statement on Monday that its license to include the YouTube app in the iOS operating system "has ended."

Apple noted that "customers can use YouTube in the Safari browser and Google is working on a new YouTube app to be on the app store."

courtesy- Reuters