A couple months ago, a Major League Baseball spokeperson hinted that live video streaming—one of the vaunted promises of iPhone 3.0—could make its way to the league’s $10 At Bat app. Tomorrow, they’re making good on their tease.
https://gizmodo.com/mlbs-incredible-web-video-plans-hd-with-mosaic-picture-5200381
Set to be updated immediately after the firmware 3.0 release, the app will stream out-of-market games (no locals, sadly) at a rate of one or two a day. The thing that’ll set At Bat apart from existing video apps by CBS (and others) will be its ability to stream over 3G, without apparent limitations.
https://gizmodo.com/tv-com-iphone-app-streams-free-full-length-cbs-and-show-5161237
This is bigger news than it sounds, and not just for people who like baseball. For MLB to ship—and more importantly for AT&T and Apple to allow—an over-the-air streaming app paves the way for more general TV apps for the iPhone. It’s weirdly shocking to actually see, even if we were told to expect it.
https://gizmodo.com/hulu-iphone-app-coming-and-its-badass-5216849
If you do care about baseball, here’s your opening schedule for tomorrow, in manly-man military time: Chicago Cubs/White Sox at 14:20 EST, and the Detroit Tigers/St Louis Cardinals game at 20:15. [BusinessWeek]
