– Looking forward to iOS 6 on your iPhone? Hope you don't love your YouTube app, because Apple announced today that it's ditching the pre-packaged app from its software, CNET reports. The official reason: "Our licensing to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended." That's about it, except Apple reminds customers to use YouTube on Safari or in an upcoming app made by Google. Apple's reason sounds fishy to Peter Kafka at AllThingsD: "Either Apple really doesn’t want to make its own version of a YouTube app, or Google really doesn’t want Apple to make one," he writes. Obviously Apple's relationship with Google has soured after Steve Jobs threatened to go "thermonuclear" over Android phones and Apple announced plans to drop Google Maps on the iPhone with a homemade version. The real issue? Probably that ads don't run on the current YouTube app, says Kafka.
Let's expand this into a news article: Apple has apparently further cut Google out of its universe. While a standalone YouTube app is on its way, it won't be installed by default on new iPhones and iPads. 
  
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 Apple dropped the default YouTube app from the latest beta version of iOS 6, sparking rumblings of further anti-Google action following its expulsion of Google Maps earlier this year. The Cupertino company says the YouTube app will be back... but in standalone form, not as a home-screen default. 
  
 While YouTube is gone from the iPhone and the iPad, it was still working for Apple TV, 9to5Mac reported earlier today. The move appears to be Apple's latest attempt to distance itself from Google services. The company dropped Google Maps as a preset on its phone in favor of its own 3D Maps earlier this year. 
  
 YouTube was one of the original iPhone's main features, pushing Google to re-encode the entirety of the popular video hosting service's library so that it could work without Adobe's Flash. 
  
 Since then Apple, which is in charge of maintaining the app, has largely let it languish. The company did add a few features, mainly to the video player and social features like commenting and sharing on other social networks. Google, in turn, has put its resources into developing a mobile site to emulate some of that functionality. 
  
 This latest move from Apple won't necessarily crimp users' ability to catch lolcat videos on iPhones and iPads, since YouTube will still be available via Web browsers such as Apple's Safari. 
  
  
  
 Apple released the following statement: 
  
 Our licensing to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended. Customers can use YouTube in the Safari browser and Google is working on a new YouTube app to be in the App Store. 
  
 An Apple spokeswoman confirmed that the company will not preinstall the YouTube app in iOS 6 at all. Instead, interested users will have to search it out in Apple's App Store. 
  
 YouTube would not confirm if there is a new app on the way. 
  
 "We are working with Apple to ensure we have the best possible YouTube experience for iOS users," a company spokesman said in a statement e-emailed to CNET. 
  
 Updated at 3:11 p.m. PT: With comment from YouTube. ||||| Why Is Apple’s YouTube App Disappearing? (Hint: Think Ads.) 
  
 So we know that Apple won’t include its homegrown YouTube app in the newest version of the iPhone software that comes out this fall. 
  
 But why? That’s a little murky right now. 
  
 I haven’t heard back from Google yet. (Update: Here’s a comment via a YouTube rep: “We are working with Apple to make sure we have the best possible YouTube experience for iOS users.”) But here’s what Apple PR rep Trudy Muller told my colleague John Paczkowski today, confirming reports that the YouTube app has disappeared in the newest beta version of the iOS6 app released to developers: 
  
 Our license to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended. Customers can use YouTube in the Safari browser and Google is working on a new YouTube app to be on the App Store. 
  
 But that’s confusing. Just about anyone can build their own YouTube app, using YouTube’s public API. So something’s broken here: Either Apple really doesn’t want to make its own version of a YouTube app, or Google really doesn’t want Apple to make one. 
  
 Neither version of that story makes a lot of sense. YouTube was one of the original apps that Apple included with the very first iPhone, back in 2007, when the only apps on the machine were the ones Apple made. 
  
 The linkup was good for both sides. This ad even highlighted the integration: 
  
 Then again, that was back in 2007, when Eric Schmidt was on the Apple board of directors, and Google hadn’t launched Android, and Steve Jobs wasn’t talking about going “thermonuclear.” 
  
 And since then, of course, things have changed. The Apple/Google rift already surfaced earlier this year, when Apple confirmed plans to replace Google Maps on the iPhone with a homegrown version. 
  
 In the meantime, the iPhone YouTube app has always been a weird bit of corporate compromise. If you’ve used the app, you might notice that it doesn’t run ads, and that some YouTube content isn’t available on it — most music videos, for instance. 
  
 If you want that stuff on your iPhone, you’ll need Google-sanctioned versions, like the HTML Web app that Google launched in 2010, or the official Vevo app, which is powered by Google. And that’s the only choice you’ll have, starting this fall. 
  
 Update: Here’s some insight from an industry executive who works with both companies, and suggests that you’ll increasingly see YouTube take control of all its apps, for the reasons discussed above: Ad dollars and user experience. “YouTube [has] decided they didn’t want third-parties building apps,” says my source. “Their strategy has changed. They want to control their destiny more.” |||||

– Her parents traveled to India to look for her. Her brother feared she’d been kidnapped. But Saturday—a week after she went missing—the body of Rhode Island native and MIT graduate student Kaitlin Goldstein, 28, was found in a ravine in India, the AP reports. Her parents say she apparently slipped on loose rock while jogging and fell several hundred feet off a cliff. "The death of someone so young and promising is a terrible loss; we should all take time to reach out to those around us," MIT officials said in a statement. Goldstein had been in India since June 7 for a workshop on energy and development in the remote northern region of Ladakh. MIT News reports that the competitive runner left for the mountain trail at around 6am local time on June 14; a search of the summit was launched around 8:45am after she didn't return. Soon, local police, the Intelligence Bureau of India, the American embassy in New Dehli, the US State Department, the FBI, and a security firm hired by MIT joined the search. Goldstein, who was pursuing her doctorate in architecture, intended to stay in India after the workshop to install solar panels at a Buddhist monastery. Goldstein’s brother said she was "really passionate about helping poorer places out."

Let's expand this into a news article: In an email today to the MIT community, President L. Rafael Reif shared the news that graduate student Kaitlin R. Goldstein has died in a remote region of northern India known as Ladakh. 
  
 Goldstein, 28, was a fourth-year graduate student in architecture, and in MIT’s Building Technology Program. Her body was found yesterday in a ravine below a trail where she had gone for a morning run on June 14. Her parents, who traveled to India to assist in the investigation, report that she slipped while running on loose rock, sliding several hundred feet off a cliff. 
  
 “As Kate’s family and friends bear this sorrow, we offer them the sympathy and support of the MIT community,” Reif wrote in his email. “The death of someone so young and promising is a terrible loss; we should all take time to reach out to those around us.” 
  
 Goldstein had arrived at the campus of the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL) on June 7. SECMOL is located near Leh, India, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. 
  
 At SECMOL, Goldstein spent the week of June 8-14 participating in a workshop on energy and development. The workshop was jointly organized by the MIT-affiliated Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi. She was scheduled to stay and install solar panels for an off-grid electrical installation at a nearby Buddhist monastery. 
  
 A competitive runner, Goldstein was last seen going for a morning run up a mountain trail at around 6 a.m. local time on Saturday, June 14. When she did not return from her run, a group of SECMOL students and instructors began a search of the summit around 8:45 a.m. 
  
 The Jammu and Kashmir police joined the effort that afternoon; the investigation subsequently grew to include the Intelligence Bureau of India, the American Embassy in New Delhi, the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the U.S. State Department, the FBI, and others. MIT retained a private security firm, based in Mumbai, to assist Goldstein’s family and MIT with the investigation. 
  
 The Institute’s full range of student support and mental health services — accessible via together.mit.edu — is available to all members of the MIT community. Judith McGuire Robinson, MIT’s associate dean for student outreach and support, says students can also turn to summer staff in dorms and Fraternities, Sororities, and Independent Living Groups (FSILGs), and to faculty advisors. Affected graduate students may contact the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education at 617-253-4860. 
  
 All members of the MIT community who feel affected by this death are encouraged to contact Mental Health Services at 617-253-2916. 
  
 The News Office will update this story as more information becomes available. ||||| CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who went missing more than a week ago in northern India has been found dead in a ravine after she reportedly slipped while jogging and fell several hundred feet off a cliff, MIT officials said Sunday. 
  
 Kaitlin Goldstein, 28, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, was found dead Saturday in a remote region of northern India known as Ladakh, in a ravine below a trail where she went running on June 14. She hadn't been seen since. Her parents, who went to India to look for their daughter, told MIT officials that she apparently slipped on some loose rock before falling off the cliff. 
  
 Goldstein, a competitive runner, was working on a doctorate in architecture at MIT in Cambridge. She arrived in India on June 7 to take part in a workshop on energy and development on the campus of the Students' Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh near the city of Leh. 
  
 The workshop was organized by the MIT-affiliated Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi. She had been scheduled to stay after the workshop and help install solar panels at a nearby Buddhist monastery, MIT officials said. 
  
 MIT President L. Rafael Reif sent an email to the members of the MIT community on Sunday notifying them that Goldstein had died and that counseling services were available on campus. 
  
 "She was passionately interested in energy solutions for the developing world, a subject she was exploring in a remote region of northern India at the time of her death," Reif wrote. "The death of someone so young and promising is a terrible loss; we should all take time to reach out to those around us." 
  
 Goldstein was last seen on June 14 heading out for an early morning run up a mountain trail. When she didn't return, students and instructors at the Students' Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh went looking for her. 
  
 The search grew to include local police, the Intelligence Bureau of India, the American embassy in New Dehli, the U.S. State Department and the FBI. MIT also hired a private security firm based in Mumbai, MIT officials said. 
  
 Goldstein's parents, Drs. Jack Goldstein and Jean Plover, went to India to search for their daughter. 
  
 Before her body was found, Goldstein's brother, Adam Goldstein, told WPRI-TV in Providence that he was worried she may have been kidnapped, and was concerned because of highly publicized gang rapes in India. 
  
 Adam Goldstein said his sister was "really passionate about helping poorer places out." |||||