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, Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller told . The story was .

This news comes not long after that the company would be shipping a new version of the Maps app in iOS 6, which would no longer rely on Googles mapping data. Both the YouTube and Maps apps shipped with ; though built by Apple, they remained the only official native apps for third-party services until 2008 saw the debut of the App Store.

While Google and Apple had a strong relationship for many years, with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt even serving on Apples board of directors, the rapport between the two companies has deteriorated in the past several years. One major factor behind that dissolution is Googles increased emphasis on its rival Android smartphone platform, which Apple CEO Steve Jobs considered a copycat of the iPhone.

Im going to destroy Android, because its a stolen product, . Im willing to go thermonuclear war on this.

Schmidt eventually , but relations had already become strained between the two companies. Apple had , and delayed an official client from Google itself, which . Apple has also in recent years sued all three of Googles major Android hardware partners, , and over intellectual property violations, though it has to date . The two companies have also for some essential patents.