I was going to copy and paste some choice dumb quotes from this, but apparently I'm not allowed to select text or something on NYT, since they use JS to remove my selection as soon as I make it. I added nytimes.com to my HN filter. Sorry if this comment is kind of useless for actual discussion of the article, but I had thought NYT didn't put out crap like this or (once you got in, anyway) do shady stuff on their site.<p>edit: I guess it's one of those insert-shit-into-your-clipboard-when-you-try-to-copy-text things, except it's breaking in Chromium in Linux for me.
<i>"Hulu app could launch a player on the iPhone or iPad, if, of course, Apple allowed them to do so. If not, then a mobile site would have to be built in HTML5, video controls, overall UI, advertisements and all. That's no simple process."</i><p>I'm not really sure that writing a new Objective-C player is tremendously easier than writing an HTML 5 one. If it were, wouldn't they have already done this for the iPhone?<p>At least everyone would benefit from the option of getting rid of flash if they did write a seamless HTML 5 rendition.
Title is Bullllllllllllllllllllshit.<p>They could have an app up in a couple weeks that streamed select shows. They could have their entire library up as soon as they got their entire library up (which is basically a process of running 2 programs on each show, a possibly scriptable task, which likely should be quality checked by a human). The protocol and video player are extremely advertising friendly on the iPhone.<p>Apple might not approve them, but it's not exactly a huge expense to find out.<p>If they're changing business model and chose to not find out is one thing. But this is NOT a hard <i>technical</i> problem.<p>Disclosure: I do custom 3rd party iphone apps for a living, including streaming video.
Interesting. Let me ask the HN community this: I am exploring a niche web video startup that targets a demographic that would lend itself to having an iPad/iPhone app.<p>Here's the question though: should I plan to actually code an app, or should I just go for HTML5? What would you do?