iPhone Report

My son Freedom took me to the Apple store yesterday. He's determined to spend his savings on an iPhone.

We played with it awhile. It seems that YouTube on the iPhone is not connected to the main YouTube service and none of my favorite YouTube was available. I'm not sure whether that is just a transitional thing or if they are being selective and commercial. I could not find any PJ Harvey video, for example, or my own Vids - that's simply unforgivable. I pulled up a few of my own pages - it does not do Javascript or FLASH - which probably accounts for the YouTube limitation. No doubt they are having to convert the entire YouTube base to the QuickTime format. I was left wondering about all the transcoding that must be going on back at the server - which is, I assume, the real reason there is no Javascript and no FLASH.

My only other criticism is - why is it not perfect? Jeez, I went in expecting perfection and it is something less than that - it just pretty damned cool!