While I’m sorry that you think my preference for an app differing from your own doesn’t constitute “good journalism”, I can assure you that I’ve used the YouTube app a great deal. I don’t know why me choosing to use and support an app based on functionality over the looks so clearly demonstrates that I haven’t used the latter in your mind- mostly since it’s absolutely not true.

I think the YouTube app is a very nice looking application, I think it clearly proves that YouTube programmers know what they’re doing with Java- but it’s a little form over function IMO. It’s the same reason I don’t use an iPhone. Sure it’s pretty, sure the UI is a bit nicer than my beloved S60 on a couple of counts, but it doesn’t get the job done *for my needs*. With vTap I can search and instantly start playing back content from, literally, a hundred thousand sources. The YouTube app worked well for me, until the S60 vTap application came along. That’s all I’m trying to say.

I cited Palin and the financial woes in my country as a figure of current events, but I should think you get the idea. My needs for a web video streaming application goes beyond that of watching something ‘funky and fun’. While that works for you, *and I appreciate that it does*, it doesn’t cut it for me. What does cut it for me is being able to view YouTube sources as well as all the others in one application with a decent interface- not the prettiest, but a decent one. The analogy between command line DOS and Mac OS X is a bit out there IMHO… Though, for what it’s worth, I do mention that they’ve got some work to do on the interface, and I’ve heard back from them on that- a new interface is indeed in the works, but for now I think they were placing more attention on functionality- which I think they’ve done a fantastic job with at this point.

In the end, we’ve both “real users” with difference impressions of things- and that’s okay. That’s how this whole thing works. :)

While I’m sorry that you think my preference for an app differing from your own doesn’t constitute “good journalism”, I can assure you that I’ve used the YouTube app a great deal. I don’t know why me choosing to use and support an app based on functionality over the looks so clearly demonstrates that I haven’t used the latter in your mind- mostly since it’s absolutely not true.

I think the YouTube app is a very nice looking application, I think it clearly proves that YouTube programmers know what they’re doing with Java- but it’s a little form over function IMO. It’s the same reason I don’t use an iPhone. Sure it’s pretty, sure the UI is a bit nicer than my beloved S60 on a couple of counts, but it doesn’t get the job done *for my needs*. With vTap I can search and instantly start playing back content from, literally, a hundred thousand sources. The YouTube app worked well for me, until the S60 vTap application came along. That’s all I’m trying to say.

I cited Palin and the financial woes in my country as a figure of current events, but I should think you get the idea. My needs for a web video streaming application goes beyond that of watching something ‘funky and fun’. While that works for you, *and I appreciate that it does*, it doesn’t cut it for me. What does cut it for me is being able to view YouTube sources as well as all the others in one application with a decent interface- not the prettiest, but a decent one. The analogy between command line DOS and Mac OS X is a bit out there IMHO… Though, for what it’s worth, I do mention that they’ve got some work to do on the interface, and I’ve heard back from them on that- a new interface is indeed in the works, but for now I think they were placing more attention on functionality- which I think they’ve done a fantastic job with at this point.

In the end, we’ve both “real users” with difference impressions of things- and that’s okay. That’s how this whole thing works. :)