YouTube Live Today on Apple TV & Coming to the iPhone

The Apple/Google relationship just grows and grows. Whatever next?

Cool, but a bit bleh...nothing too exciting...

No killer app, but definitely a time killer

I concur,

The layout for the iPhone has changed on Apple's websites, and the iPhone's now have the 12th spot filled in

and what's up with the touch demo video spilling and floating over text? You would think they'll have zero tolerance towards cosmetic blemishes on any of the iPhone pages...

YouTube Live Today on Apple TV & Coming to the iPhone



Apple has announced that YouTube content is available on the Apple TV today and will be coming to the iPhone upon its launch on June 29th.

Apple® today announced that iPhone™ users will be able to enjoy YouTube’s originally-created content on their iPhones when they begin shipping on June 29. A new Apple-designed application on iPhone will wirelessly stream YouTube’s content to iPhone over Wi-Fi or EDGE networks and play it on iPhone’s stunning 3.5 inch display.

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Apple TV users can download a free update via the built-in software update to enable YouTube content.

Both AppleTV and the iPhone will play YouTube content that has been reencoded into the h.264 video format. 10,000 of YouTube's videos have been converted so far with the remainder expected by the fall.

The press release claims that h.264 was chosen "to achieve higher video quality and longer battery life on mobile devices".

Indeed, reports coming out of WWDC is that one of Apple's justifications of avoiding Flash video playback on the iPhone is for improved battery life. The iPhone contains dedicated hardware capable of playing h.264 content, while Flash content would require more intensive use of the iPhone's CPU, resulting in higher battery drain.

Southernboy said:

The Apple/Google relationship just grows and grows. Whatever next?

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Good (not haxie) GMail in Mail.app ?

Picasa for Mac?

The YouTube demo is up now....looks pretty sweet!

YouTube on the iPhone will make every kid in America want one of these.

psychofreak said:

Good (not haxie) GMail in Mail.app ?

Picasa for Mac?

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Gmail would be nice on the iPhone.

There are now 7 YouTube/iPhone threads

This is GREAT NEWS!

I don't particularly care for the You Tube icon on the iPhone...looks a bit dull/boring.

Arc

Sweet. If its got youtube, it doesn't need a TV tuner or flash. Now I want one more than ever. Watching Robot Chicken episodes on the bus sounds like a fun way to spend the morning...

12th button

What about a mystery 13, 14, 15 and 16th application? There's still some room on that screen!

arcanic said:

I don't particularly care for the You Tube icon on the iPhone...looks a bit dull/boring.

Arc

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I agree, thr addition of youtube is disappointing. If you want it, just bookmark the website in safari. I was hoping for something useful.

To whomever has an AppleTV; does this update bring any other functionality or features? Possibly a setting to change aspect ratio to 4:3 (i wish!)? Thanks.

This makes sense, and now I'm not as upset about not having Flash on the iPhone.

please please let this be the death blow to flash!

See, Google buying YouTube was a good thing.

hobbbz said:

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the mysterious 12th button reveals itself! now are there any secrets left? other than the data plan options??? well and if a SDK will ever be released?

SheriffParker said:

Sweet. If its got youtube, it doesn't need a TV tuner or flash. Now I want one more than ever. Watching Robot Chicken episodes on the bus sounds like a fun way to spend the morning...

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is edge fast enough to stream youtube content? this sounds like a feature that would require wifi. i wonder, though, if one can record/store youtube content on the iphone. overall, good news.

any new app is a plus, so this is great! however, the low battery cop out being the excuse for no flash? apple could've kept that. oh well, 9 more days