YouTube has overhauled the mobile web app version of their site, with a heavy emphasis placed on HTML5. This version has a wider variety of functions that you can get on YouTubes normal app, including the ability to comment, like or dislike, change video quality and more. Early reports indicate that videos loads faster from within the web app than they do from the normal app.
By all accounts, it’s a more fully featured and better designed version of the usual app. So why doesn’t the company push through a major update for that, introducing all these features? Or are they attempting to phase out the app, instead relying on the power of HTML5 to optimise their mobile site?
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Sweet! Much better than the app that comes built into the iPhone.
What’s stopping them from using HTML5 from within the standalone app?