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"YouTube announced Tuesday that its long-awaited iPhone app is now available as a free download in the App Store.\nIn case that sounds like a news story from 2007, let's clarify: yes, there was a native YouTube app on the very first iPhone, and on every model since. But that app was made by Apple, not by YouTube. It featured an infamously poor selection of YouTube videos. \nUntil now, any iPhone owner that wanted a full YouTube experience had to go to m.youtube.com in their Safari browser. Apple announced it was dumping its hobbled YouTube app earlier this year, clearing the way for the Google-owned video giant to produce its own version.\nLess than a month later, that in-house version is ready for prime time \u2014 just one day before the expected launch of the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.\nThe timing is very interesting, and the fact that an exact App store launch time was given \u2014 3:01am ET \u2014 suggests that Apple and Google collaborated behind the scenes to have the new YouTube app squared away in time for the launch. \nIt's also likely to be a cash bonanza for Google, which is finally able to show ads before YouTube videos on an iPhone app. \n\nSEE ALSO: RIP YouTube App, 2007-2012: Why You Won't Be Missed\n\"The new iPhone app is available worldwide and unlocks tens of thousands of official music videos, as well as bringing lots of new features to improve finding and sharing awesome videos and channels,\" writes Andrey Doronichev, head of YouTube mobile, in a blog post. \"It\u2019s a new app built by YouTube engineers, to give our iPhone users the best mobile experience.\"\nThe app also features autocomplete search, much like Google Instant, with an emphasis on popular videos. To get to \"Gangnam Style,\" for example, you're not going to have to type much more than \"gan.\" \nYouTube has been putting the emphasis on channels for a while now, and the app is no different. Swipe from the left, and you get a list of channels you're subscribed to.\nNaturally, the app also lets you post videos to Twitter and Facebook with a tap \u2014 although Google+ gets pride of place, with the first sharing button.\n\nOne thing we'd like to see in the iPhone app: the same \"watch it mostly offline\" functionality that the Android YouTube app gained this summer.\nThe app will also work on the iPad, although Doronichev says his team is hard at work on a special iOS tablet version with more functionality.\nWhat else would you like to see in YouTube's iPhone app? Let us know in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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