Apple won’t include YouTube app in new mobile software

GROWING RIVALRY: An iPhone being used to photograph the star of Mexican singer and songwriter Pepe Aguilar. Apple’s new version of its iPhone and iPad software will not include a pre-loaded app for Google Inc’s popular video website, YouTube. - Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc’s new version of its iPhone and iPad software will not include a pre-loaded app for Google Inc’s popular video website, YouTube, Apple said.

It was the latest sign of the growing rivalry between the technology companies the once were closely aligned but now are vying for supremacy in the fast-growing mobile computing market.