The button turned into a spinning circle. A tiny progress ring appeared on his home screen, where the ghost of the old app used to be. A moment passed. Two.
He did not type "download YouTube" or "YouTube free." Just . This was key. The first result was inevitable.
There it was. The icon was a familiar red rectangle with a white triangle "play" button in the center. Underneath, in bold letters, it said . And just below that, the name that mattered: Google LLC .