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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
YouTube goes mobile broadly, in a limited/crippled way
Not Quite YouTube To Go
Noted:
- People want to get access to YouTube, they don't care who's doing the plumbing, so exclusivity deals can only create consumer aggravation. Hence it's good that Verizon lost the exclusivity.
- Phones should support de-facto standard video formats, like MPEG, DivX and XviD. I wonder who came up with the 3GPP format. That has no rationale what-so-ever.
- It says EDGE is slower than 3G. In theory yes, but my experience is that EDGE is well in line with 3G. Maybe because no one's using it, so pipes are not clogged, so to speak.
'In short, it's not YouTube--not now, maybe not ever.'
I think that not until videos are converted and cached on-the-fly can there be a real/full mobile YouTube, as so many new videos are published every minute. Converting videos is a very slow process though, so a predictive multi-terabyte cache (e.g. new videos are cached unconditionally etc) is needed, or else people will just leave.
Other notes about this:
YouTube launches Mobile Portal for all kind of Mobile Phones
Verizon exclusivity ends, YouTube Mobile opens the gates
YouTube Launches Universally Accessible Mobile Site
