The iPhone's video problem
Hesitant to add even the lightest feather upon the press-heavy midden heap of iPhone coverage, I'm softly pointing to Mossberg's iPhone FAQs, which includes this factlet about watching video on your shiny new prosthetic:
If the iPhone’s Web browser is so good, why can’t it play video on Web sites I visit?
At launch, the iPhone version of the Safari browser is missing some plug-ins needed for playing common types of Web videos. The most important of these is the plug-in for Adobe’s Flash technology. Apple says it plans to add that plug-in through an early software update, which I am guessing will occur within the next couple of months. However, a separate program included on the iPhone can play a limited selection of videos from YouTube, and the phone can play videos you purchase from Apple’s iTunes store, and certain videos you create yourself.
