Djeet

olevine

Ummm, wouldn't it have been far easier to simply allow the iPhone to have Flash capability, rather than putting poor You Tube through the torture of converting all of their videos??

Apple is the computer genius, and they probably know what's best. It just appears a bit ridiculous.

dezinewiz

What really sucks when you apply the update is that it erases everything on your AppleTV. This might be as I replaced the original drive with a 160GB drive. It takes a long time to upload over 100GB of music, videos and photos!

Phobs

Phobiac

It's ... revolutionary. I can hardly wait for the ads.

crescentdave

Just curious to see if the quality is the same with H.264 as it is for Flash video... or if YouTube had somehow stored an "original" version of the videos and converted from those. The h.264 version could potentially look better in that case.

okeo

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this make it rather possible and realistic to at least watch a 25-minute TV episode? And since it's streaming, wouldn't have to wait to download the whole file.

IdentityBureau

For Criminy -- you'd think the damn thing cures cancer, solves the energy crisis and makes a decent daiquiri.

(OK, it looks up the recipe for daiquiris, allows me to order the ingredients...) "Stupid iPhone"

Windhawk

Ah, now I get the question. I'd think that eventually you would be able to buy content via the iPhone, but Steve said during a recent interview that this was impractical at this point.

The YouTube videos are much smaller in size, lower resolution, etc. I can't imagine a scenerario where Apple would offer "mobile video" and "high res video" via iTMS. Maybe they will have a subscription model. Who knows? For now, I think bandwidth is the issue. iTMS files are pretty big, and EDGE will be way too slow to buy content.

For now, I'm under the impression that content will be transfered via PC based iTMS only.

alywa

Long live tactile feedback keyboards!

BigSwirv

IdentityBureau

Like most of the iPhones's features, it is not that it is new or revolutionary. It will be the interface.

On your n95, do you access YouTube via browser or via a dedicated app? Is it slick, or cludgy?

For example, I can access YouTube on the Wii. It sucks. The interface is cumbersome, searching is tedious, and I find it really isn't worth it. Apple-TV would likely be much slicker. I see the iPhone -vs- other phones being that way.

/I could be dead wrong, however. None of us have actually played with the thing yet.

alywa

Since the phone is wi-fi. Could you technically run Skype or similar app on it? I know that adding applications is not standard, but much like Apple TV I bet it gets hacked to do that rather quickly. And since you don't get a discount on the phone can you just buy it and cancel the cell-plan after a couple of days and get out of the contract and keep the phone since it's not discounted anyway? This way you would have internet, ipod and skype phone with no contract, perfect for me.

Mayor McRib

Sketchaphone

Baaaaaa

Ummm... the iPhone is an iPod, thus will play anything you can get on iTunes Music Store, and pretty much anything that will play on your computer within iTunes. That's one of the major points of the iPhone.

Perhaps I don't understand your question.

alywa

Elliuotatar

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bitfactory

Sounds to me like this special version of YouTube/no Flash support isn't "just the internet."

jermjerm

rcarydon

IdentityBureau

Other than the ping pong ball gun video. That rocks!!!

yoshi

Wilson Rothman

Tiberius

Falconfire

You can watch youtube on any cell phone now. works well on my Motorola V3xx.

FuzzysFriedChicken

bitfactory

nacio