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."

Comments

Re:Woah...

[sendai-X]

Really Big F-ing deal. I would be a lot more impressed if the mystery application turned out to a fully documented and open API.

Re:Thats a pretty stupid mystery app

[dave420]

The iPod isn't as perfect as you make it out to be. Plenty of them go wrong, there are all sorts of problems with the battery, some stop being recognised, etc. Windows smart-phones sync with their desktop host without user action, btw. And Windows is more than 10% of the desktop market, and the Treo supports corporate email software. And has other custom apps. I'm not bashing the iPhone, I'm just getting a bit peeved that people are making it out to be some sort of holy grail of telephony, when in fact it's crippled by design, and only does a few things really well, and those few things are only available to a tiny minority of desktop users out there.

The Treo obviously is targetted at consumers. It's a piece of consumer electronics. Trying to equate the amount of marketing dollars spent advertising a product with how good the product is smacks of naivety somewhat.

Re:The Killer App is...

[SimHacker]

I'm sure your cell phone service provider would be thrilled for you to upload uncompressed videos over their slow expensive internet connection, because Steve Jobs decided they only programming language you have access to is JavaScript.

How far will Apple fan-boys go to justify Apple's horrible designs and stupid decisions? Will you pay $500 for the airtime it takes to upload an uncompressed movie, while your phone line is tied up for three days sending data? You'd better get two iPhones if you want to receive any calls.

-Don