Comments on: YouTube, Coming Soon to Your Cell Phone

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:56:59 +0000

This is an opportunity either for a huge corporation to throw unlimited resources to productive and hard working employees, to figure out ways to develop technology that will not require huge “pipes”.

A genious broke inventor using what he has might figure out a solution to the bandwidth problem and he might dominate the whole market single handedly. (thus crippling all the huge corporations that have not figured out the solution.) Giving people what they want, COMPUTER ACCESS at the palm of your hand. That would be really awesome if I could do in a handset, what I can do currently with my home computer.

By: YouTube goes mobile at Matt MacQueen

YouTube goes mobile at Matt MacQueen — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:32:26 +0000

[...] Fehrenbacher over at GigaOM blogs YouTube, Coming Soon To Your Cell Phone… an inevitable development, but the how is as interesting as the what. YouTube’s mobile [...]

By: trulover

trulover — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:46:41 +0000

you better use WiFi and (( truphone )) when downloading these videos otherwise the carrier are going to get rich on us again…

By: Murali

Murali — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 06:33:18 +0000

Jesse,

Unlimited Data means carriers are reduced to the level of bit haulers or fat pipes.

A voice call is currently charged at an average of 4-6 cents per minute(including all unlimited eve & weekend plans) to get profits. A $19.99 unlimited plan means roughly 350-500 minutes. If I subscribe to $19.99 unlimited data plan and use a GPRS phone, and assume that I use it for 1 hour a day, that would mean 30 hours a month or 1800 minutes a month. I pay 19.99 means, wireless carrier gets 1 cent per each minute of network usage. 3-5 cents a minute loss to the carrier.

And, why would I use just only for an hour when I have unlimited data plan?

By: Shawn McCollum

Shawn McCollum — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:12:47 +0000

Just found this by someone from UCLA who beat YouTube to it. (link)

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:52:42 +0000

murali, why would you think carriers don’t make money on unlimited data? In the US, at least, carriers only offer services that make money. They might be willing to take hits on handset subsidies for the sake of competition, but not on service revenues. If unlimited data plans weren’t profitable, they wouldn’t be offered.

By: bdc

bdc — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:08:30 +0000

Looks like Microsoft’s Soapbox is already doing this.

(link)

By: Androhair

Androhair — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:39:39 +0000

Androhair: Youtube is a really good idea but in the web video segment, I dont think spreading that mucho and investing in this technologies will be a productive thing for the company, maybe in the economic side could be but when specializing in web video, they still have a lot of department where to work, lets say having a more attractive website, giving the option to download the video but with a good quality and also showing them better…Lets se what happens www.androhair.com

By: Mark Pritchard

Mark Pritchard — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:20:54 +0000

Mobile is a platform that Google has to involved in if they’re to be competitive; but it remains to be seen if advertising can be placed on mobile devices without annoying the user. It could be just a lot of clutter.

By: murali

murali — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 04:47:10 +0000

I don’t think carrier will like this. No body is foolish enough to pay per KB when watching video on mobile. Carriers don’t make any money on Unlimited data. That also means, carriers will remain as fat pipes.

Since YouTube mobile will directly compete with some of the IMS services carriers are dreaming to prove that they are more than fat pipes. YouTube mobile is going to make those IMS hyped up services dead before they are born. For consumers, good news is in the coming, that The Walled Garden is about to be opened up.

By: Gary Bourgeault (thealphamarketer.com)

Gary Bourgeault (thealphamarketer.com) — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 04:34:55 +0000

This seems like an announcement made because their competitor MySpace has already said they’re going to do it.

With the majority of mobile users not interested in video at this time, I’m not sure what, if anything, this means.

By: Sahim

Sahim — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:59:47 +0000

Thanks shawn. I never knew abt zamzar.com. Nice service.

By: Shawn McCollum

Shawn McCollum — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:03:07 +0000

I wonder if the guys behind zamzar.com could build something into their file conversion tools that would convert the youtube.com swf files on the fly and beat YouTube to it like srobbin.com did with Google Video.

By: Southland

Southland — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:44:52 +0000

Certainly not coming to (link) .

By: Elango

Elango — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:22:10 +0000

coming to iPhone, you mean.