The top Windows Phone 7 app -- YouTube -- is just a website shortcut

Yeah really didn't expect something like this from downloadsquad, they could at least call josh at engadget to check, if you dont install youtube app you cant watch youtube videos, and if you download it you can, theres also other youtube apps for WP7 in marketplace which will work like just any other youtube apps but they still need this first youtube app(the plugin) to be installed

nothing and 9 times out of 10 the youtube mobile site has more features and is better organized. (and google can update it at will)

Just out of interest, from a person who is yet to acquire a smartphone, what kind of functionality would a native Youtube app give you that you couldn't get from a web app?

gonintendo is exactly right, it's sometimes a bad assumption that an 'app' will have more features or do something the mobile site itself won't. That's often not the case, and it means the app features usually lag the site itself, and sometimes lose support for a while, like with Facebook on the iPhone.

The entire app thing is sort of out there because of Apple, but really the more people use mobile sites the better to avoid a ton of platform fragmentation and orphaned apps over time.

heh but does it copy n paste?

LOL

Lameware

The lamrphone7 certainly has the same feature set ;-)

Protip: People reading these replies remember, supervise your children when they are on the internet.

now....

silver.

I think I understand the point you were trying to make even though it is mostly incomprehensable. Firstly, copy and paste are coming before December 31st. That puts copy and paste as well as multitasking on the table 2 months after WP7 launch. Given that it took apple more than 2 years to bring that to the table, thats a pretty heafty accomplishment.

Now while you might obviouslly have an android phone, I did too. In fact, I had 4 of them. 3 of them died within a month, the last one lasted about a year. Droid 1 at launch. So I'm well aware of what the phone does and doesnt have. I used it for a year. I rooted it. Ran Bugless Beast, Ultimate Droid, among 3 or 4 others. It's true, they have the same feature set, but so does the iphone, webos, symbian, and blackberry os for the most part. So I'm not exactly what point you were trying to drive home with that. But what came out of your fingers when pressed against the keyboard was "The phone has an operating system". Good job. Way to state the obvious.

My beef with the android os is that sure, it promises a lot. But the implementation from all vendors has been slow, laggy and unresponsive. Not one of them have good cameras. Most are slow and unresponsive. Try taking an action picture at a sporting event for example. Thats a feat not one of them can handle. The apps are all basically web site front ends. The games, lets see the 2 that are decent are on every other phone platform under the sun (comon do we really need angry birds on EVERYTHING?). It's an laughable mobile gaming platform. The droid X is great for the 4 hours the battery lasts. I could go on and on. The one thing the droid "Does" well, is be a gps. Thats it. Turn by Turn directions is coming to WP7 as well within 3 months. Even without it, the bing maps and direction features they implemented are already so good, I almost dont care (live traffic updates right on the default map app, something i needed a second app for on my droid). My new focus runs great, fast as hell, super responsive, fantastic gaming with the xbox live integration, with (according to most mobile developers) the best dev tools and support for a mobile platform on the market. I'm happy, ive had both, and I like my focus better. Most people that bought the phone came from other smartphones and we pretty much all agree on this point.

Now lastly kiddo. I saw you there trying to use some pretty 1337 words there. lamr, yeah thats cute. But wait, didnt people stop using that one like i dunno, 99, 2000, 01? Feeling nostalgic or are you just behind on what the jr. high kids are using on facebook these days? Wow, and I thought I was out of touch.

It's cute that youre trying though. I think most of us down deep, think you little newbies are adorable after a while, I guess you grow on us over time.

Keep working on the posting though. You almost did it all in English this time! Way to go!

@Christian Williamson (aka ms apologist)
> Firstly, copy and paste are coming before December 31st.
D'oh so you agree that's a failing and that you get a lamephone till then... OK.

>That puts copy and paste as well as multitasking on the table 2 months after WP7 launch. Given that it took apple more than 2 years to bring that to the table, thats a pretty heafty accomplishment.

So your argument is that the lamephone7 is 2 years out of date? OK.


> In fact, I had 4 of them. 3 of them died within a month, the last one lasted about a year. Droid 1 at launch. So I'm well aware of what the phone does and doesnt have. I used it for a year. I rooted it. Ran Bugless Beast, Ultimate Droid, among 3 or 4 others.

Poor little rich boy :P the phones are probable reacting badly to all that acne cream and your bad body odour ;-)

>My beef with the android os is [...] I could go on and on.
Yes you do!

>The one thing the droid "Does" well, is be a gps. Thats it. Turn by Turn directions is coming to WP7 as well within 3 months. Even without it, the bing maps [blah blah blah]

fanboi

Now lastly kiddo. I saw you there trying to use some pretty 1337 words there. lamr, yeah thats cute.

LOL or I typed "r" instead or "e" heh. I think this can be filled under transference :-)
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Transference

>Wow, and I thought I was out of touch.

Agreed, you are granddad.

>It's cute [blah] newbies [blah] adorable...

see previous link to on transference

Final advise: its been fun but you need to look up the definition of troll ;-)

"Ha-ha!"

troll troll is troll

I'm expecting the lamephone7 to last longer than the lamephonekin...

heh