iPhone users who enjoy viral videos and watching people attempt to perform Jackass-style stunts will be pleased to know that amongst the goodies on their new cellphone will be a YouTube viewer application. Rather than being available through the Safari browser, there'll be a specific, Apple-designed program that can stream the Flash video either over the EDGE or WiFi networks.
YouTube is moving to encoding using the H.264 standard, which offers far better compression of video while still retaining higher quality than the current H.264 video. That means faster downloads and, of particular interest if you're paying for the cellular data, less to transfer. It should also preserve some battery life.
Further screenshots indicate how the iPhone manages bookmarked video clips, complete with ratings, and a more detailed information page for specific clips that has greater description and a “related videos” option. Both pages have easy “share” buttons to allow the clip to be forwarded on to a friend.
The iPhone will be the first mobile device to support H.264, and YouTube are promising over 10,000 videos in the format on launch day with the rest of the back-catalogue being converted by the Fall.
“iPhone delivers the best YouTube mobile experience by far,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Now users can enjoy YouTube wherever they are-on their iPhone, on their Mac or on a widescreen TV in their living room with Apple TV.”
[via SlashPhone]
This would be interesting to see since 1-Nokia N95 has native support for youtube and 2-how will it work if iPhone doesn’t support Java in or out of Safari? Unless Apple did something similar to Google Map – where they took Youtube’s API and really mod the heck out of it.
Probably modded eh? Let’s connect the dots. Youtube on iPhone, and Eric from Google is sighted with an iPhone. All in the same 24 hour period.
[quote comment="3940"]Probably modded eh? Let’s connect the dots. Youtube on iPhone, and Eric from Google is sighted with an iPhone. All in the same 24 hour period.[/quote]
You’re a genius Walt! Google does own YouTube. Microsoft must be crapping in their pants right now. Apple + Google = anti-Microsoft (it sucks not invited to the largest party in history)