m.youtbube.com

[Jason California]

You won't be wanting to use the app on your phone anymore.

[Jason California]

YouTube Mobile Goes HTML5, Video Quality Beats Native Apps Hands Down (http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/07/youtube-iphone-mobile-html5/)


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If you’ve got a phone with an HTML5 compliant browser, you’ll probably want to check out YouTube’s new mobile site, which is rolling out over the next few hours at m.youtube.com (http://m.youtube.com/). It’s a major upgrade from the old mobile web app, with a more polished UI and better load times. It also uses plenty of HTML5 features, including the video tag. But most important is the fact that the web app has superior video quality when compared to native applications — namely the iPhone’s — and it will soon feature more content as well. It’s also widely available, with support for nearly any HTML5 compliant mobile browser, including those on the iPhone and Android devices.
Of course, YouTube already has a mobile application with massive install base — every iOS device, all 100 million of them, came with a native YouTube application. But during a presentation at YouTube’s headquarters today, product manager Andrey Doronichev made it clear that the new web-based application is superior in just about every way, and it wasn’t hard to detect some tension between YouTube and Apple. This underscores a bigger trend (http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/11/google-voice-desktop-app-launch-delayed-may-be-scrapped/), as Google shifts toward favoring web applications over native apps whenever it can.
You see, YouTube doesn’t actually control the native app that ships with the iPhone — that’s all Apple, though YouTube obviously collaborates with them when asked to. And it’s clear that the Apple team hasn’t done such a great job keeping up with YouTube’s latest improvements. In one particularly telling demo, Doronichev pulled out two iPhones and pitted the native YouTube application against the new m.YouTube.com. The web app offered a number of advantages, including auto-complete in search and a UI that’s more consistent with the latest version of the YouTube webpage (the iPhone app still uses YouTube’s 5-star rating system, which was abandoned (http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/21/new-youtube/%E2%80%9D) in January in favor of a binary ‘Like’ system). Most important, the video quality of the web application was leaps and bounds ahead of the iPhone app — Doronichev explained that this was because the iPhone app still uses a video streaming format that was developed for Edge, not 3G. Video on the HTML5 app looked much better, and was snappier to boot.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGT8ZCTBoBA&feature=player_embedded

[BriRedfern]

So I want a new YouTube app for android or a total upgvrade on the last one. YouTube is so integrated into Android, I don't want to start using the browser to view embedded video...

Makin me change my settings and what not.

[Jason California]

So I want a new YouTube app for android or a total upgvrade on the last one. YouTube is so integrated into Android, I don't want to start using the browser to view embedded video...

Makin me change my settings and what not.


It is better dude. Google owns Android and Youtube. you don't think they have considered ease of use for you?

[MAZEhimself]

I just checked it out. It's not bad. It's a quicker than my iPhone app and cleaner to boot!

[BriRedfern]

Speedy.

[Ben]

Does Youtube work on the Wii yet?

[RoShambo]

Is this a porn thing??
Yay Bubes!!
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