nice :)

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And two new QuickTours are up, one with widgets and one with YouTube
http://www.apple.com/iphone/internet/

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it's a start I guess. I also hope they'll figure a proper flash player for the iphone soon.

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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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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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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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Hmm.. a week ago Youtube mobile was released by Vodafone. Now this.. co-incidence?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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All of youtube on your iPhone? They better up that storage on that sucker then! Har har har.

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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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Ever notice they hang up the hone on Starbucks (the maps app)?
How rude. =P

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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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Afterschool, I'm sorry, I think I misread your post.

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