Here’s something to chew on this weekend. There’s word passing around blog land about the discovery of a YouTube plugin for Safari Mobile, the Web browser found a selection of Apple’s mobile devices. The find is apparently burrowed inside the iPhone 2.0 firmware. The Boy Genius Report is positing the idea that this revelation may mean “some sort of ‘Flash’ support” down the line.
Now, I won’t dispute the option that Flash may find itself installed on the iPhone somewhere down the line. I imagine that will happen. It almost seems inevitable. But looking at this new memo, I cannot help but think the plugin is directly attributable to the iPhone’s already-existent YouTube application. It may eventually be revealed that Apple is developing its mobile Safari browser to operate with YouTube’s main page without need for the standalone application currently included in the iPhone’s software catalogue.