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p2pnet.net news:- Apple’s iPhone, due out next week, will be able to stream YouTube videos. 
Sort of.
“The iPhone will use a relatively slow cellular data network provided by AT&T, and streaming video is likely to tax it, but the iPhone will also be equipped with Wi-Fi, providing faster speeds in hot spots,” says the New York Times.
Videos are being encoded into the H.264 format, “which results in better video quality when played on a mobile device,”says The Telegraph. “It also saps less battery power.”
Four-gig models will cost $500, and 8-gig versions, $600, when the phones go on sale on June 29, “plus an undetermined (or at least undisclosed) amount for your monthly AT&T service plan,” as the Mercury News puts it.
Apple is infamous as one of the original, most innovative, users of DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) consumer control and it’s extended this to a new level.
Purchasers will also be forced to open iTunes accounts, like it or not, if they want to be able to use their new phones.
Not only but also, Windows users may have to run Apple’s Safari, now in a convenient beta Windows configuration, to get to some synchronization features, says InformationWeek.
Also See:
New York Times - Apple Says iPhone Will Be Able to Play YouTube Video Clips, June 21, 2007
The Telegraph - iPhone owners ‘can watch YouTube’, June 21, 2007
Mercury News - Apple puts YouTube video clips on iPhone, June 20, 2007
forced to open - iPhone buyers MUST have iTunes, June 14, 2007
InformationWeek - Windows Users Don’t Care About Safari, June 12, 2007
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