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New Google-Apple deal on YouTube
Filed Under (iPhone) by admin on 20-06-2007
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Apple has announced today that content from Google’s popular video-sharing Web site YouTube will be accessible via either Wi-Fi or EDGE networks for the upcoming iPhone.
Apple also said YouTube videos are now available on its Apple TV device. Until now, the Apple TV has mainly been able to show videos from the user’s iTunes library, and some movie trailers from Apple’s site.

YouTube has begun encoding their videos in the advanced H.264 format, which results in higher video quality and longer battery life on mobile devices. Because the iPhone will be the first mobile device to leverage YouTube’s encoding of video in H.264 format, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was right when he said in a statement that “iPhone delivers the best YouTube mobile experience by far”.

Initially, only about 10,000 YouTube videos will be available for the iPhone’s launch, but the complete video catalog will be available in H.264 format by the end of the third quarter of 2007.

To take advantage of Youtube, iPhone buyers will have to subscribe to a data plan from AT&T, which will be the only wireless carrier offering the iPhone initially. A plan with web and email access as well as unlimited data transfer volume is currently priced at $20 per month. Voice plans are available from $40 per month.

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