Handful of Nothing

Just got it on Arstechnica :

“Apple also announced this morning that the iPhone will have YouTube support as well. The company says that a new, Apple-designed app (wow, thanks for specifying that, Apple) will allow users to stream YouTube content to the device through WiFi or EDGE.”

And I fully agree with their comments on the fact that although there’s already a universal mobile version (that I posted about 2 days ago):

“This announcement only comes a few days after YouTube launched its own, “universal” version of YouTube Mobile. Apple just isn’t content to let other people do the work, I guess.”

For my point of view there’s good and bad things about that. If they break compatibility at any point is a bad thing, but looking at a product’s perspective it’s much better to make sure your client application “integrates” with the host device other than forcing people to use something that is just made to the less capable device. That’s what you get in the AppleTV version of youtube. It’s you tube, but inside the AppleTV user experience. Not a browser window.