YouTube On The iphone

What are people saying?

1. Erik Schwartz said on June 21st, 2007 at 9:56 am

   It will be cool when you’re on via WIFI, it will be painful when you’re on via EDGE.

   YT has to re-encode stuff to H.264 before it will work on the iPhone, so it’s not likely the whole library on day one.

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2. Shaun Rotman said on June 21st, 2007 at 1:21 pm

   #1 YouTube Mobile was announced last week for pretty much every phone already out there. So YouTube on the iPhone isn’t anything revolutionary.

   #2 The iPhone works on an EDGE network. So nobody with an iPhone will want to use YouTube.

   #3 Many phones out there already have built in Flash support, with those numbers continually rising.

   As Erik said above, the only time you will want to use YouTube on your iPhone is when you have WiFi coverage. With respect to YouTube, the iPhone is no more special than the many other phones out there with WiFi capabilities.

   Loren, I hope you’re not acting all “fanboyish” because it’s an Apple product, and rather because it will be a really cool portable media player with basic phone functionality.

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3. pk said on June 21st, 2007 at 2:29 pm

   Is this FSJ linkbait? Anticipation is one thing, but tripling the estimates? I’ll admit, the phone is going to have some cool stuff on there, but who’s the market? Business users could afford it, but they won’t want it without the keyboard (not to mention whether the IT staff will support it). Younger people may want it, but will they have the cash? Plus, the cell phone market is big-time saturated, so you’ll have to have all these people re-upping their plan or breaking an existing plan to get an iPhone. That’s another $175. I’m trying to understand the hype.

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4. Jeck said on June 21st, 2007 at 3:29 pm

   I’m waiting for a phone that grates cheese.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xXNoB3t8vM

   Who plugs their cell phone into their computer? Hardly anyone.

   Who plugs their ipod into their computer? Everybody.

   Same will go for iphone.

   Isn’t that the real big deal about this?

   It’ll be cool to send video updates to clients’ iphones.

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5. Mark said on June 22nd, 2007 at 7:03 am

   Does a lot of this hype (not referring to you specifically here, Loren) feel forced to anyone besides myself?

   I love this from the Onion

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6. Loren Feldman said on June 22nd, 2007 at 10:41 am

   I just cant wait.

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7. Diego said on June 23rd, 2007 at 8:35 am

   YouTube videos for the iPhone are higher quality H264. They should make them available to anyone. I bet people would pay for higher quality YouTube videos.

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8. Dave said on July 1st, 2007 at 10:09 am

   so i’m using my iphone. it hardly sees any youtube videos at all. just the featured and most viewed for the most part. hardly anything else. it can find more than it shows too. when i find certain ones, it says “cannot play this video.” i have yet to actually be able to play one that i randomly searched for. on youtube typing ‘fractal’ gets about 2400 videos… but on iphone 0 for the same search.

   i feel that this is how the internet will start to look without net neutrality.

   the iphone basically does an end run around net neutrality.

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9. jvon said on July 2nd, 2007 at 12:52 am

   Thanks Dave, finally someone who has actually used the thing. You’d think it was a freaking teleporting device with all the secrecy around it.

   From what I hear transfer speed on it is crap. Watching video will be painful. It can hop on wifi apparently, which is kind of cool (I guess), but how many places have open wifi? And how long will they continue to when everyone has handheld devices that suck up all the bandwidth?

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