YouTube on iPad, updates for iPhone 5 and iPod touch

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/12/youtube-on-ipad-and-sweet-updates-for.html

by sciwiz • 14 years ago

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nextstep• 14 years ago

The first sentence of this post is a grammatical mess.

shoopy• 14 years ago

And this shallow meta-comment is upvoted to the top?

Meta comments about meta comments!

hnriot3• 14 years ago

this has to be one of the dumbest things I've seen written on hn for a while. Are your reading comprehension skills really so challenged?

induscreep• 14 years ago

Anyone know if it's better than Jasmine?

experiment02• 14 years ago

And it still doesn't do the one thing that I wanted it to. Namely, letting me play the video whilst the phone is locked. It's extremely silly really, that if I wanted to listen to a playlist of music, I have to keep the phone unlocked the entire time.

In the meanwhile, I'm going to continue using Jasmine. Its what the youtube app should be.

baddox3• 14 years ago

I thought that Jasmine had to remove the background audio playing at YouTube's behest.

experiment02• 14 years ago

AFAIK if you double tap the home button whilst the phone is locked and then press play, it will then resume the music.

The feature they removed was the audio auto playing when you lock the phone.

EDIT: Just tested and you can indeed play music on the lock screen.

yohui• 14 years ago

YouTube doesn't seem to be interested in becoming a streaming music service. (I suppose that's Google Music.)

naner• 14 years ago

As a software engineer, the idea of streaming video to listen to music (ignoring video output) hurts my soul. You're wasting all those bits!

In a normal world it wouldn't make much sense to allow video to keep playing while the screen is unavailable. I guess in our world, however, Youtube is one of the few reliable sorta-legal sources of free music.

nerdo• 14 years ago

Does it cost anything to display a static image? (which is what most youtube songs are)

pinaceae• 14 years ago

this is such bullshit - it is not available in my itunes app store (non-us). why not mention that in your release post?

i386• 14 years ago

As an Australian, I understand your sentiment completely.

hnriot3• 14 years ago

I really like how hn has started "reporting" these kinds of app updates. It's great to see apps become first class citizens of the news feed.

untog• 14 years ago

...is that sarcasm?

hnriot3• 14 years ago

no, not at all. I quoted "reporting" because hn isn't a journalistic site, it's a news aggregator/curator or whatever. I actually meant it! There are so few good ways of discovering the good mobile stuff from the crap that I am truly glad this is now making it onto HN.

jggonz• 14 years ago

I see Google releasing new Apps for Apple devices, but what about Android users? I hope something similar is in the works...

nsxwolf• 14 years ago

There's still no volume slider.

YouTube on iPad, updates for iPhone 5 and iPod touch

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