About the removal of YouTube app from iOS 6
1. This is already reported during the beta days. NDA being only a 3 capital letters and all.
2. Google submitted YouTube app to iTunes App Store, and it was released on September 11th, 2012.
3. John Koetsier, a writer for VentureBeat that also consulted on technology, social media, and marketing for many years; apparently was either living under a rock since September 11th, 2012 or just whoring for page hit.
4. Did I mention page hit whoring?