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Joost is out!
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Nope. Not really. The biggest difference is Joost has about 10,000,000,000,000 less videos.
I mentioned this on TouchArcade forums but thought I'd point it out since some members here might not visit there but seems Joost only works on a wifi connection.
Someone also asked what the difference was between Joost and YouTube and I'd have to say it's a little easier to find content on Joost for certain things like travel for example. I like using both though looks like YouTube will still be my favorite when I'm out and about since I don't tend to frequent wifi spots. Hopefully Joost will change their restrictions in the future but at least they've got something out now.
Someone also asked what the difference was between Joost and YouTube and I'd have to say it's a little easier to find content on Joost for certain things like travel for example. I like using both though looks like YouTube will still be my favorite when I'm out and about since I don't tend to frequent wifi spots. Hopefully Joost will change their restrictions in the future but at least they've got something out now.
Didn't work for me at first too. I restarted mine and now it works. It is VERY buggy though.
Pretty good video quality. Sometimes the video won't play, and it crashed a few times. But when it works, it's not bad. I'm watching Ghostbuster on it right now, and it looks great.
I would rather have hulu on the iphone, but more options is always better.
I would rather have hulu on the iphone, but more options is always better.
I actually got this on the day without realising it had just been released. It's a really great application and excellent for shows that the BBC iPlayer don't offer (such as c4 programmes). Can be a little buggy and might make things easier if they change the slide to next page-feature. I always end up watching something by accident.
Sometimes I despair...
...of the comments on this forum...joost is better than YouTube (at least for now) in that it has real, full length feature films available - and it works just fine, with no problems other than those typical of Safari's incompetence...and wifi is great - it works when I don't want to bother my wife late at night, when u don't want to fire up the laptop...sure I'd like a 3g implementation, but that would likely be blurry and fuzzy just like YouTube is on 3g...the point is that joost is first out of the gate with a great, free, app...hope Hulu will follow...and now, back to The Fifth Element!
...of the comments on this forum...joost is better than YouTube (at least for now) in that it has real, full length feature films available - and it works just fine, with no problems other than those typical of Safari's incompetence...and wifi is great - it works when I don't want to bother my wife late at night, when u don't want to fire up the laptop...sure I'd like a 3g implementation, but that would likely be blurry and fuzzy just like YouTube is on 3g...the point is that joost is first out of the gate with a great, free, app...hope Hulu will follow...and now, back to The Fifth Element!
i agree but according to this, nope
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/3/hulu_no_iphone_version_soon
then again the article was in march and times do change, esp since the success of the iphone 3g
If they do update it for 3G, won't there be a chance that Apple might reject it?
I mean, Joost offers some full length TV shows. That would require "huge amounts of data transfer" right?
I mean, Joost offers some full length TV shows. That would require "huge amounts of data transfer" right?
What's Safari have to do with anything? Joost isn't a web app. And just because *you* for some strange reason haven't had any problems, you are literally the only one. Check out *any* hands-on, you'll get people saying they got the error message about network problems...even when they were on 10 megabit business connections and could easily use YouTube. Not all the time, but it's definitely not problem free (and for some people, like me, it never works - best I was able to do was watch 5 minutes of Ghostbusters on my work's high-bandwidth internet connection before getting the error).
Well, Apple/AT&T allow YouTube to do this. They should also allow Joost to do it too then.