It may be hard to remember now, but the YouTube app bundled with iOS is a holdover from the very first days of the very first iPhone — before the existence of the App Store, and when pre-loaded programs were really the only functionality offered by the device. Apple and Google were tightly connected in those days — Google's then-CEO Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board at the time, and Steve Jobs invited him on stage when the first iPhone was announced. "You can't think about the internet without thinking about Google," said Jobs. "We've been working very closely with them to make this all happen." For his part, Schmidt was effusive about Apple and the iPhone. "If we just sort of merge the companies we could call them AppleGoo."
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