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by blamazon 1273 days ago
If I remember correctly Apple built the app in relative secrecy so that iPhone could open YouTube links at launch without supporting flash, and Google was okay with that because it drove growth in YouTube and Android was in infancy, but the arrangement ended in 2012:

https://www.engadget.com/2012-08-06-youtube-app-removed-from...