YouTube hits Apple

YouTube hits Apple TV today, headed for the iPhone as well – Engadget
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.

 

I’m not too excited about the feature for the iPhone (since I wont be getting one) but I’m just about to check out YouTube on AppleTV and I’ll get a review up soon.

This is just in time for the summer TV blues where the only show some stations has to offer is  horrible contest shows.  But I’m still waiting for a real IPTV solution from Apple, hopefully Joost or Google will help because pay-per-show isn’t cheap, nor good enough quality.

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  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    It’s good to see that the phone will handle that kind of usage (high network traffic and decoding h264).

    It does also make me wonder again why there’s no 3G data capability, though; seems like they would have made that a priority, especially with this, unless this was ana afterthought.

  • http://dancameron.org Dan

    The speculation is that 3G is an expensive radio especially if you need both 3G and EDGE. Because 3G isn’t widespread yet I’d assume they’d go 3G when it becomes available to more than a few citys.

    I’m not even sure if we get 3G, although I’d be very surprised if not.

    As for the decoding, it has to be able to decode large h.264 files since it’s an iPod too. Yeah, Apple is really pushing that codec. Early on they tried to push it for mobile use and now with the iPod and iPhone I think they’ll win out compared to WMV.

  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    It’s good to see that the phone will handle that kind of usage (high network traffic and decoding h264).

    It does also make me wonder again why there’s no 3G data capability, though; seems like they would have made that a priority, especially with this, unless this was ana afterthought.

  • http://dancameron.org Dan

    The speculation is that 3G is an expensive radio especially if you need both 3G and EDGE. Because 3G isn’t widespread yet I’d assume they’d go 3G when it becomes available to more than a few citys.

    I’m not even sure if we get 3G, although I’d be very surprised if not.

    As for the decoding, it has to be able to decode large h.264 files since it’s an iPod too. Yeah, Apple is really pushing that codec. Early on they tried to push it for mobile use and now with the iPod and iPhone I think they’ll win out compared to WMV.

  • http://thealexandbenshow.blogspot.com/ Micah

    I have to agree with you in that the added YouTube feature to the iPhone isn’t that big of a deal to me. I just don’t see the necessity of being able to watch YouTube on a mobile device. I own a video iPod now and I rarely use it for video as it is, let alone streaming video to an iPhone. This seems like more of a PR marketing push to tie relations with Google.