iPhone and YouTube Channel Subscriptions
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007I just checked out the iPhone in a little more detail at the Apple store. I was familiar with most of the issues people have been having with it. The iPhone could definitely benefit from 3rd party apps.
But I wanted to mention an issue I had with YouTube on the iPhone. It seems like something kind of obvious to me and I did a quick search and didn’t find it being mentioned anywhere. You can’t subscribe to channels with iPhone. That seems very important. Probably more important than being able to bookmark videos. So if I regularly watch the PBS Channel, the only way I can view the videos in it is by doing a search. Viewing a channel should be three clicks away. YouTube > Channels > PBS. You should login once at the beginning, your first time launching the YouTube app, and that should be it.
Of course, I have other qualms with the iPhone. It looks like there is so very much more they can do with it, and I expect them to in future updates. But I just wanted to quickly mention that one for the two reasons of seeming obvious that it should be done and not seeing anyone having mentioned it.