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that, coincidentally, is playable on the <strong>iPhone</strong> and the Apple TV?<br />

Amazingly enough, YouTube agreed. (Chalk one up for Steve Jobs’ reality distortion<br />

field.) At the launch of the <strong>iPhone</strong>, 10,000 YouTube videos had already<br />

been converted, with the rest planned for conversion by the fall of 2007.<br />

So the YouTube app on the <strong>iPhone</strong> exists for two reasons. First, it makes accessing<br />

YouTube videos much easier than fumbling around at YouTube.<strong>com</strong>.<br />

Second, it saves you time because it displays only the high-quality H.264-formatted<br />

videos and hides the rest.<br />

Finding a Video to Play<br />

The YouTube program works much like the iPod program in that it’s basically a<br />

collection of lists. Tap one of the icons at the bottom of the screen, for example,<br />

to find videos in any of these ways:<br />

•<br />

•<br />

Featured. A scrolling, flickable list of videos hand-picked by YouTube’s<br />

editors. You get to see the name, length, star rating, and popularity (viewership)<br />

of each one<br />

Most Viewed. A popularity contest. Tap the buttons at the top to look<br />

over the most-viewed videos Today, This Week, or All (meaning “of all<br />

time”). Scroll to the bottom of the list and tap Load 25 More to see the<br />

next chunk of the list.<br />

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