The wait is over, and you can finally train that
Apple Remote of yours on videos of passable karaoke, mind numbing video blog confessions and the genius that is Daxflame. That's right,
YouTube is hitting the
Apple TV today, an announcement that is totally overshadowed by a little surprise
Apple packed into the press release: YouTube is the
iPhone mystery app. Sure, it might not be GPS or anything useful like that, but Apple seems to be aware of our addiction and is happy to oblige. YouTube videos can be viewed through an Apple-built application on the phone, and will be encoded in H.264 by YouTube to improve video quality and battery life on mobile devices. They'll have 10,000 videos ready by June 29th, and should complete transcoding the collection by this fall. Videos can be viewed over WiFi or EDGE, we don't want to even imagine the painful load times of the latter.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Read - Apple PR
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posted June 20th 2007 9:16AM
Remember when Engadget and Gizmodo just posted positive things about new gadgets, and the comments were filled with postive comments like "Cool, I like it"? Now they've been overrun by the 'I hate everything' zealots, probably coming over from Digg, and it's very annoying (ie. amby above me). And almost every new blog post has some kind of snide remark in it, ESPECIALLY if it's an Apple post.
Oh give me a break. Any device that engadget posts has those same negative comments. They're just as valuable, if not more so than the positive ones. How are posts that basically say "i hate it" and more valuable than posts that just say "i love it"?
Pointing out what a device does not have, comapred to the competition, is just as important as pointing out what it does have. There is no perfect device out there, period. But when people like you can't handle what the iPhone is missing and they get upset about it by blaming it on "zealots," that's when I think the comments conversation goes downhill
Hello Mystic,
to some extent you are right. Yes, I'm starting to get a bit bitter ESPECIALLY if this is an Apple iPhone post. There is no excuse for that. But are you able to see it from the other side also?
It starts in January 2007, when you read about a new LG. Or Motorola. Or Samsung. Or Nokia. And it continues when for one positive comment there are ten fanboy comments saying, that LG/Motorola/Samsung/Nokia sucks and the Jesus phone is coming.
Or when someone questions iPhone functionality and the response is questioning the commenter's personality. This doesn't help.
As I would put it simply: if there is a force, there is always an opposite equal force.
At least Engadget is only sipping Kool-aide, over on Gizmodo it's all iphone all the time.
My n95 has had a YouTube button on it since I bought the thing a month ago. You click it, you get thumbnails for a mind-numbing assortment of bullshit that you can download and watch as you continue to wonder where your life is draining away to..
The iPhone will certainly enhance, if not alter irrevocably, our ability to fritter away the hours and days.
I couldn't agree with you more. The iPhone is obviously a very swanky device, and anyone who says otherwise is in denial.
Apple fanboys are quick to jump on anyone who says anything negative about the iPhone, using faulty information and misguided intentions.
Right now I look at the iPhone a lot like I look at OS X: it's very simple and very streamlined, and that certainly appeals to a large amount of the population. But for me, I like to be able to customize to my heart's content, something which Apple doesn't like. I'd be willing to sacrifice my need for complete control over my device if the iPhone had other abilities, but I'll have to wait until the second generation of iPhones come out and see if they have those features.
I have to agree with amby. Steve Jobs said that the iPhone is 5 years ahead of the competition. Apart from multi-touch and a (potentially) decent UI, the iPhone is struggling to keep up with the *current* competition!
I know what you mean and i don't know how they are ahead if most phones already offer what they do and sometimes even more for less, the iphone is just like another imac in the market cost more get less.
I can't believe Apple got YouTube to convert all of their videos just for the iPhone. Since when does any company bow down to the needs of another like that when they really don't get anything in return?
When they get paid to do it. I'm sure this wasn't out of good faith or maybe just for more site hits on youtube but I think youtube should stay on the computer seeing as thats what the videos are optimized for. Anyway I think I will just stick with my Xbox 360 Video Marketplace for right now. But on the other hand YouTube videos will work great on the iPhone I currently have a few youtube videos on my Zune and I enjoy them.
Reformatting YouTube videos to H.264 isn't just for the iPhone!!! It's a much higher quality codec than the H.263 (Sorensen Flash 7) that YouTube is currently using. It will greatly improve the video quality, which is well overdue if you ask me. Personally, I would have liked to have seen On2's VP6 codec being used, IMO much better quality and lower bandwidth usage as well.
Ah ha!
Now we know why Apple and Verizon couldn't partner on the iPhone. We all know how Verizon frowns on any multimedia streaming on their "unlimited" data plans. You'd end up with a bunch of iPhone owners being kicked off their data plan for violating Verizon's terms of service - perhaps something VZW wasn't able to bend on, even for Steve.
YouTube is already on mobile phones. Today.
http://my.opera.com/vetler/blog/2007/06/20/opera-mini-and-youtube
And YouTube is on the Nintendo Wii, long before it was on Apple TV.
how about **this** for a multitouch phone
it is also a youtube interface but 3d
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iHyqwi-gFso
Isn't the iphone suppose to be some sort of smartphone otherwise for business in a way. why is that when another company tries to do something like that with their products people don't even give it chance, but when apple release something very un-useful to the serious person it gets praising. GOD i hate this then why apple classifying the iphone a "smart phone" when really it is just another entertainment device, which i am sure off will lack on being a phone. And yes i am looking forward on getting low ratings on my comment and bashings because it is not flowing with all commotion. But you are all just being ignorant and don't want to face the fact when apple releases a flop. The only people buying that phone are the apple fan boys. IT is a nice phone i admit but it is not something that will overrun the phone market.
I would considering buying an unlimited data plan IF the phone was 3g, but there is no way I can justify spending that much on a slower network.
Then there's no way you can justify watching YouTube on your iPhone
No flash means not being able to see embedded YouTube videos on other pages. I wonder if the embed will automatically load up the H.264 version where available, or if there will at least be some linkup with the YouTube app. Without some link there, there could be problems.
i forgot my phone from Verizon has a feature better than youtube although it has that as well, it is a song identifier it identifies songs on the radio (or anywhere where the song is playing) names you are dying to figure out and it allows you to purchase from your phone the whole song to listen on my/your phone. I don't think the iphone is going to allow you to buy itunes content from your phone you are going to have to go home and sync it meanwhile between then the song is stuck in your head driving you crazy.
I certainly won't be buying an iPhone, but why would extra features ever be a negative, no matter how silly or useless they may personally be to you?
If Steve Jobs hasn't set the iPhone up to purchase songs over iTunes directly to the phone, then the whole world has gone mad.
What a great mobile phone! Now you can watch short, grainy videos of teenage boys acting like morons wherever and whenever you have a decent signal. But it'll take you half an hour to type a text message.
Progress!
Maybe this dates me - but YouTube on my cellphone.... on the main menu of my cellphone... is about as horrible as it gets. Sure Youtube has the occasional yuk yuk... but why does Apple have their noses so far up its ass lately? really?
YouTube videos on 100+ million iPhone will rock! Maybe now would be a good time to upload those silly videos we have been saving. I can even upload that video of brushing my teeth while doing the Robot dance. Thanks Steve Jobs!
I'd still like to know why Steve-o thought it'd be a bad idea to include a stylus. Would it really be that much to ask for?
I certainly DO know about m.youtube.com but it's hardly the same experience on other phones.
Many times faster download? There aren't many other phones with 802.11g WiFi which is how I'd primarily use the feature.
So urrrrrgh! :p
Why is it so difficult to just make the iphone play youtube videos. Having 10000 videos converted to iphone format is crap. I want to be able to watch them all. Maybe they can pay to use some technology from Archos to actually watch real youtube videos.
iPhone already out? I don't think it will be excellent device as the surface is made of glass comparing to other devices made of plastic. Their programs may be awesome but not the device itself. Once dropping accidently, you can kiss your 500 dollars good bye. I will buy iPhone if they revise to plastic surface. BTW, Apple SUCKS!
It's amazing, according to the internet you'd think the US is saturated in 3G coverage. In fact, it's quite the opposite and the vast majority of people can't even use 3G if they wanted to.
I highly doubt you would get an Iphone even if they changed the screen back to plastic.... Anyone with the name Sony#1 must be a complete tool, name one good thing Sony has done in the past decade other then the ps1 and 2? Are you still pissed Apple took the portal audio market once owned by Sony?
I'm really not comfortable with how Apple and Google are in bed together.
God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost all wrapped up into one device. The Holy Trinity iPhone. How can it not be a success among all the righteous of this world. Outright specifications matter little. There are the undefined subtleties in life that cannot be quantified.
A chimp can take a brush, some colors and add some strokes to canvas, but he won't produce a Rembrandt. You can put WiFi and megapixel lenses and a large screen on a smartphone and wind up with an ugly, unwieldy conglomeration of parts.
The iPhone is the Rembrandt of smartphones. The perfect assemblage of form and function.
Well, that's what the hype says, so don't accuse me of being an Apple fanboi.
Apple made the right move, they will use any brand that is big to gain attention, it's not really about youtube or google, Apple simply wants to give more reasons to sell, make their products "sexy" and "cool" , which is very smart. Youtube is very sweet, so is google, and microsoft, but there are better video sharing sites out there, such as Motiono ( http://en.sevenload.com/videos/Ocb9YNx/Motiono-com-3 )..