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iPhone's "Mystery App" Is H.264 YouTube
Rebelgecko writes "It turns out the iPhone's mystery app is a custom YouTube viewer. The iPhone will play YouTube's videos using the H.264 codec(as will the AppleTV after an upgrade) for higher quality. From the look of it, it will take advantage of the iPhone's screen design and touch capabilities much more than watching videos in the iPhone's version of Safari would. The videos can be streamed via a Wi-Fi connection or the EDGE network."
That is *sweet*!
if they could only make it to, like, surf myspace too. that'd make it totally worth the money. i'd buy two of them just so i can do both at the same time.
I don't know how many times my wife has been driving and I, sitting in the passenger seat bored out of my mind, thought to myself...
{dream sequence}
Damn I wish I could see a short clip of kittens doing cute things or kids doing lightsaber battles
{/dream sequence}
My life is now complete.
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Am I the only one that sees the iPhone as only an (awesome) entertainment device? I might be wrong but I didn't see any spreadsheet or word processing apps. I realize a widget could be written to run some local version of the google office apps but isn't it a bit wasteful?
It would be so awesome of they released a developers kit (and wishful thinking, make it open to everyone). Too bad it's impossible (viruses, ugly inefficient apps and all that).
Whatever the outcome, I'll pay 500 to whoever writes the first 95% compatible full speed widgetized NES emulator with a comfortable input system.
Oh yeah, and gives me an iPhone to test it intensively for five or six years or until the next iPhone comes out.
...How does Apple do this? They like convert people into Apple salesmen - like zombies or something.
Look at your post, "chasing the ipod generation", "its the hippest phone ever", etc, etc..
The only new thing is, like you said, "its the hippest phone ever", and nobody will shut up about it.
damnit someone should steal that shirt and sell it on ebay
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'
There is an easy way to tell... on the drive to work immediately following the 29th look for the number of cars wrapped around trees.
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Hint: owning a Mac, iPod or iPhone does not make you "hip". You're still a geek, you twit.
Throw your old pda/telephone/whatever at the fleeting assailant.
The question was closer to "How is it that Apple is seen as hip?". Unfortunately for most of you it can't be explained. Hipness isn't something you are capable of understanding simply because you aren't hip enough. I'm serious. If you somehow started to grasp that a given thing was hip, and you started doing it, it would immediately stop being hip, that is how not hip you are.
People like you are like high school principals trying to rap. Some rap is hip, some is not, but even a hip rap is lame if it is being performed by a high school principal. YOu people are the high school principals of technology.