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YouTube available now for Apple TV, will be on iPhone when shipping
Attention Apple TV owners, you might want to run software update. Why? Because Apple has just released the YouTube update. You might recall that Apple announced Apple TVs would soon be able to play YouTube videos thanks to a free software update (which is all part of the surprising and delighting). That update has come, and it is available for download.
Apple also announced today that the 'mystery 12th app' on the iPhone is... a YouTube viewer! That's right, no longer will you be tethered to your desk watching grown men put Mentos in Diet Coke bottles, you can do that while walking around, riding a bus, or sipping coffee at a Starbucks. The iPhone YouTube app will have a multitouch display and work over EDGE and WiFi (though I imagine it'll work best with WiFi).
Remember that YouTube has started encoding videos in H.264, so that Flash will not be needed on either the Apple TV or the iPhone to enjoy this content. 10,000 YouTube videos will be available on June 29th in this format, with more coming every week.
Update: TUAW reader Brad points out that Apple added a video of the YouTube app to the iPhone section of thier website. Go check it out.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
andrew harrison said 9:35AM on 6-20-2007
nice :)
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Ola said 9:38AM on 6-20-2007
And two new QuickTours are up, one with widgets and one with YouTube
http://www.apple.com/iphone/internet/
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basscadet said 9:39AM on 6-20-2007
it's a start I guess. I also hope they'll figure a proper flash player for the iphone soon.
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TimD said 10:08AM on 6-20-2007
Yipee... Not only do we get to use the "powerful features" of Web 2.0 to develop our own apps (like a phone directory - yay), but we get these compelling features that are so incredibly USEFUL like YouTube.
It's hard to see how this isn't revolutionary.
Don't get me wrong. I think the phone is a sexy piece of tech. And I'm excited that we will be getting them in a little over a week. But this isn't "revolutionary" software - even PhotoBooth had more usefulness than this.
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awmyhr said 10:12AM on 6-20-2007
Does the AppleTV update do anything else? like fix some bugs? In particular, TV shows seem to be grouped by "Artist" rather then show name, icky...
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MLop said 10:15AM on 6-20-2007
I just finished installing the update - curious though, there is now a setting in Apple TV that asks you which iTunes Store (USA, Japan, etc) to choose from - does this mean you'll be able to buy songs, shows, movies straight from the couch?
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fraserdrew said 10:29AM on 6-20-2007
Has anyone noticed that Apple seem to be throwing new features at the iPhone every 2-4 days... it's making me wonder what will be in the final product. (got to be said... very nice marketing)
But, saying that, with the complete minisite (iPhone) redesign today, that could have been the finale.
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Marco F. said 10:28AM on 6-20-2007
Hmm.. a week ago Youtube mobile was released by Vodafone. Now this.. co-incidence?
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Jonathan said 10:34AM on 6-20-2007
by saying YouTube has started encoding in H.264, do you mean that they have started a parallel video repository for H.264, or have they started using H.264 instead of the older Flash format?
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Scott McNulty said 10:35AM on 6-20-2007
They are encoding in both formats, as far as I know.
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JeffDM said 10:37AM on 6-20-2007
I think I can see the value of a dedicated YouTube viewer, but it wouldn't be necessary if there was Flash on the phone. I often don't like Flash, but a web browser without flash support isn't really the "full" internet. Maybe it's coming, but it's really irritating not having the basic information.
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matt said 10:41AM on 6-20-2007
Anyone notice that absolutely nothing has been said about the camera? they have tours of everything else, except the camera and camera app. i think there is more to come from apple before the 29th.
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Mark said 10:48AM on 6-20-2007
My first reaction to this is, "wow, this is dumb. Instead of just adding Flash to the iPhone and the Apple TV, they're going to re-encode millions of YouTube videos into H.264, which will take a lot of time and $$$$." The only rational explanation for this is that they're going re-encode from the source videos and hopefully have higher resolution and/or quality, right? Does anyone else have a better analysis of this?
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Afterschool said 10:53AM on 6-20-2007
Just for the record:
1) Apple says develop Web 2.0 apps because they are just as good as normal apps.
2) YouTube is a premier Web 2.0 app.
3) YouTube is now a normal app on the iPhone.
Carry on.
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Matteo said 11:12AM on 6-20-2007
Hello!! Apple? Is there anyone there?
I am European. You know, the guys next door who are always considered minor consumers of Apple products... Well, I am sitting here on what Apple seems to consider the "stone age" side of the Atlantic and I wonder...
I wonder why I cannot get an iPhone. Have we done something wrong? Don't you sell products in Europe? Don't you have a consumer base here? Why did you create a GSM phone (albeit EDGE) and release it in a country where GSM is no where nearly as popular as here?
I wonder about the AppleTV. Hello? I bought an AppleTV, put money and trust in Apple and now all that I get is YouTube videos on it?
Why on earth do you folks consider I bought an AppleTV which is only High Definition compatible?
To watch some college guy stunts "à là jackass"? Or maybe, just MAYBE, also to watch some real content (which, by the way, I would be more than glad to pay for)?
Seems to me Apple is getting quite some things wrong in the "overseas - rest of the world" deparment...
Not that I would buy an iPhone right away, but at least, a couple of months after the release of the AppleTV (and it's upgrade, don't get me started on that one...) I would like to know... Are you even REMOTELY considering to allow us, outside the US (I am also talking, I think, in behalf of the guys "upstars" (Canadians)), to purchase some of the "ZILLIONS" of movies and TV shows you made available in the US?
Apple is becoming a US centric company... Wonder if we will get Leopard same as everybody else, or we'll have to wait "a couple of quarters" to get that one too...
Sorry... But I had to write it somewhere...
YouTube on AppleTV BEFORE movies is like... Well... selling a car with plenty of window washing liquid but no gas tank...
Bring me useful stuff first...
Greetings from the stone age... Have to go... It is my turn to go hunt in the forest...
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Nate said 11:16AM on 6-20-2007
All of youtube on your iPhone? They better up that storage on that sucker then! Har har har.
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Wharffy said 12:28PM on 6-20-2007
Does this mean that Leopards Front Row will have YouTube support? I looked at Apple's Leopard site under Front Row and still no change to the screenshots. I hope they make this change, they have till October!
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ggolinsky said 12:34PM on 6-20-2007
Ever notice they hang up the hone on Starbucks (the maps app)?
How rude. =P
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JeffDM said 1:32PM on 6-20-2007
Afterschool (#14): I don't believe for a minute that "Web 2.0" apps are adequate substitutes for local apps. They are ideal for some uses, limited for some uses and completely inappropriate for other uses.
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JeffDM said 1:35PM on 6-20-2007
Afterschool, I'm sorry, I think I misread your post.
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