YouTube on iPhone
The mysterious 12th iPhone application button has been revealed. It is YouTube. According to Steve Jobs, "the iPhone delivers the best YouTube mobile experience by far. Now users can enjoy YouTube wherever they are-on their iPhone, on their Mac or on a wide screen TV in their living room with Apple TV." Videos posted after Apple’s announcement at D5 regarding YouTube on Apple TV, have been encoded using H.264. YouTube plans to convert their entire catalog to H.264 to allow playback on the iPhone and Apple TV. Currently around 10,000 videos will be available by June 29th, and Apple has posted a YouTube demo to their iPhone QuickView page. Today Apple also launched the YouTube player in their Apple TV via software update. Looks like Google CEO Eric Schmidt joining the Apple board had some significant impact.
I rarely go to youtube on my computer. I certainly do not see me using it much if any on a phone. Hopefully you are allowed to reprogram the button for another application that you use frequently.
This is nice and I hope others make it possible get youtube like services playing on mobile phones not just iPhone. By the I rarely go to youtube now Veoh or stage6 are much better.
Mobile friendly YouTube is already available for ANY phone:
http://m.youtube.com/
too bad the iPhone isn’t 3G
aaron – i tried the m.youtube.com site on the bb8800 and the navigation worked, but couldn’t watch any videos. Would try to watch a video and there was an error – something about the protocol wasn’t supported
This will come in handy when I’m in the can taking a big crap. By by news paper hello iphone and you tube.
I probably won’t go on youtube when I get the iphone but hey as long as I know I can go on it,that’s all that matters. I can brag about it