Prep your fainting couch because Apple has once again atrociously — outrageously ! — violated the sacred corporate trust between giant data processor caller and its shrillest and most sore customer !
VentureBeat ’s John Koetsier keys“Dear Apple : Deleting your users ’ apps without notification is bounderish and arrogant”(tip type O ’ the antlers tomy glass eye ) .
“ But , Macalope , ” you say . “ A VentureBeat author who comes off like an over - inside , powdered - wig - wearing 18th - one C Danaus plexippus ? Surely that can not be right . ” Oh , but it is .
Yesterday , I pulled up the YouTube app on my recently updated iOS 6 - feature iPhone 4S. Or , I tried to .
Oh , no ! Has someone steal Koetsier ’s speech sound ? Are his hands enfeebled by the condition known as “ hot dog fingerbreadth ” ? Are aliens stealing our apps ?
No .
Turns out that Apple killed the app silently in the cognitive process of upgrading my phone to iOS 6 .
NOOOOOOOO ! Now how are we go to get Rickrolled while on the go ? !
And I , a long - time Apple drug user with multiple Apple intersection and a technology journalist who covers Apple , had missed that small factoid about the a la mode and greatest wandering Apple operating organization .
Which is on the face of it somehow Apple ’s geological fault .
It also move around out I ’m not the only one who has done so .
Ten thousand people have catch this enquiry on Apple ’s forums about the lacking YouTube app , and another thousand have regard this one .
So , 11,000 out of , what ? 200 million ? That ’s certainly damning .
But let ’s stop over and think about this for a moment .
Imagine that this was your Mac ( or your personal computer ) .
Uh , OK . Sherlock environ a Vanessa Bell ? Flash ? Java ? Apple ( and Microsoft ) take away things from their desktop operating systems all the time . Sounds like someone missed out on writing some whiney articles over the years .
But , lo ! The Macalope is looking at his iPhone running iOS 6 flop now and … there ’s a YouTube software on it ! How could that be ? ! Because Google ’s now making its own app . Which you could download from the App Store . No longer roll up an app for watching cat-o'-nine-tails videos , however , is somehow rant - suitable .
Well , if Apple or Microsoft edit someoneelse’sapplication that you ante up for and replaced it with their own software , that would certainly be an issue . That is , of course , not at all what happened here . You ’d think someone who is a “ long - time Apple substance abuser with multiple Apple mathematical product and a technology journalist who covers Apple ” would know that the YouTube app was made by Apple and include for costless .
Koetsier may know that but it ’s irrelevant because at VentureBeat , dramatic play is Martin Luther King !
This is exorbitant .
OUTRAGEOUS !
Killing the YouTube app and replacing it with nothing is even more annoying [ than supervene upon Google - powered Maps ] . But it ’s also insulting . And maybe even evil .
EVIL !
Evil . He wrote that . Every once in a while the Macalope feels he needs to verify with his referee that , yes , these are actual quotes from the article he ’s skewering because oftentimes they are so very unbelievable .
A mobile earphone is an intensely personal slice of applied science . My phone is mine . I buy it , I give for it , I use it , and I fill it with apps .
And apparently you upgrade it without checking to see what the acclivity does .
… no one seems to be talking about the arrogance that it takes to update an operating system and delete apps that user may have enjoyed , become habitual to , and rely on .
perchance because we ’re not so awfully put out by plainly having to download thenewYouTube app . Maybe it ’s the Macalope but downloading seems a portion easier than give over 800 words to an angry rant about it .
Consumers , incidentally , are speaking with their fingers right now : Google ’s YouTube is the top costless app by downloads in the app store today .
Which , the Macalope is sure , Apple is positively devastated about .
Are we so conditioned to having modified control over the iDevices we purchase that we just take this for granted ?
What part of “ You prefer to upgrade to iOS 6 ! ” are n’t you understanding ?
behaviour like this may seem small-scale and inconsequent .
Because it is .
This is just exorbitant …
UNCONSCIONABLE !
And it ’s just plain not right .
NOT RIGHT !
Koetsier seems like the kind of guy cable who gets really upset when all - you - can - eat restaurants put a point of accumulation on how many runt you could take at one time .
notice : I did ask Apple for remark on this story , but I have not yet received a response .
Oh , no , they did reply . You just could n’t try them rolling their optic .
