Business & Tech
YouTube to Have New Look on iPhone, iPad
As a way to ride the wave of Wednesday's Apple's presentation of the new iPhone 5, Google released a new mobile web version of its popular streaming video site.
A new and more user-friendly YouTube app version can now be downloaded to Apple iPhones and iPads, Google announced Tuesday.
The Mountain View-based company posted on its blog while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to Mike Arrington at TechCrunch's Disrupt and a day before Apple introduced to the world its new gadget—the iPhone 5.
According to Google, the new app now available on the Apple App Store makes viewing and sharing videos much easier.
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A new feature allows users to swipe their finger across the left edge of the screen, and this opens up a guide that lists the user's subscribed channels.
Also, the search for videos has gotten faster, Google said. Incorporating its Google+ search algorithm, the search bar will give users suggestions as they type.
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Since social media is all the rage these days, the app also makes the videos easier to share across other Google products, on Facebook, via text message in the app, and on Twitter and email.
Currently, YouTube mobile receives nearly 1 billion views a day, according to Google.
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