I've not seen (and a quick search didn't find much) mention of the YouTube app on the board, so I'm wondering if there's something really, really obvious I'm missing here.
But is it just me, or is the YouTube application on the iPhone so limited as to be nearly useless? Primarily this is because of the search function. There doesn't seem to be a way to organise search results by date added rather than by relvance. So if I want to check a certain keyword every week to see if anything new has come up I can't. And I there's no way to look for a specific channel, or look at a poster's other videos even though their username is listed (I like to go on the BBC YouTube channel for instance, but I can't, and searching for "BBC" brings up too many unrelated hits from 9/11 conspiracy theorists I've no interest in).
And since there's no link to your YouTube user name, there's no way to even access your playlists, favourates or subscriptions.
You'd hope Safari would get around this a bit, but obviously you can't play the videos themselves in the browser, and there's no way on the YouTube site to click on a link directly to that video so it'll open in the YouTube app (grr). I thought the YouTube mobile site might work, but that says that the address is invalid for every link I click on.
The only thing I seem able to do is either write down every tag and search for that every time I'm looking for a video, or email myself the links and click on them from Mail, which brings a new definition to the word clunky.
Is there something obvious I'm missing? If not, why doesnt anyone else seem to be posting about it, and will this lack of attention mean that these obvious things won't ever get fixed?
Phazer
But is it just me, or is the YouTube application on the iPhone so limited as to be nearly useless? Primarily this is because of the search function. There doesn't seem to be a way to organise search results by date added rather than by relvance. So if I want to check a certain keyword every week to see if anything new has come up I can't. And I there's no way to look for a specific channel, or look at a poster's other videos even though their username is listed (I like to go on the BBC YouTube channel for instance, but I can't, and searching for "BBC" brings up too many unrelated hits from 9/11 conspiracy theorists I've no interest in).
And since there's no link to your YouTube user name, there's no way to even access your playlists, favourates or subscriptions.
You'd hope Safari would get around this a bit, but obviously you can't play the videos themselves in the browser, and there's no way on the YouTube site to click on a link directly to that video so it'll open in the YouTube app (grr). I thought the YouTube mobile site might work, but that says that the address is invalid for every link I click on.
The only thing I seem able to do is either write down every tag and search for that every time I'm looking for a video, or email myself the links and click on them from Mail, which brings a new definition to the word clunky.
Is there something obvious I'm missing? If not, why doesnt anyone else seem to be posting about it, and will this lack of attention mean that these obvious things won't ever get fixed?
Phazer
