Google Fills The YouTube-Shaped Hole In iOS

Fancy that.

At first glance, it’s good too! It seems fast and smooth. Yes, Apple removed it as a default app in iOS 6, but overall, this seems like an improvement. Well, except for those pesky ads.

One thing: you inexplicably can’t upload videos from within the app. Yes, you can still do that from the iOS menu system (which oddly still uses the old, no-longer-there YouTube icon in iOS 6), but what a weird decision.

Also, sadly, there’s no iPad version just yet.

Now, what about the Google Maps app?…