Steve Jobs: Apple to add AirPlay video to Safari, App Store apps in 2011
Author: Rene Ritchie | Filed under: Ipod Touch, News, Steve Jobs, airplay, apple tv, iPad, iPhone, ios 4.2, ios 4.2 bugs, sent from my iphone
According to another purported email response from Steve Jobs, the AirPlay feature introduced in iOS 4.2 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad should be updated in 2011:
The question:
Hi, I recently updated both my iPhone 4 and iPad to 4.2. I think my favourite feature is airplay. This is seriously amazing and makes sharing content seamless. I just purchased Apple TV and was wondering are you ever going to make airplay video work for videos in safari and 3rd party apps? I hope to get a response.
The Steve Jobs reply:
Yep, hope to add these features to Airplay in 2011.
Sent from my iPhone
While most of us wanted AirPlay to support anything that used the standard iOS video controller, the current implementation is severely limited, providing audio-only streaming options for the most part, with video available only from the built-in iPod app (and Video app on iPod touch and iPad), and YouTube app. For third party App Store apps, audio support is likewise there but Apple hasn’t provided a sanctioned API for developers to add video support yet.
This limitation has been removed for developers in the lab via one line of code and for Jailbreakers via AirVideoEnabler, so it would be outstanding to see Apple fix it out of the box for everyone.
Unfortunately, 2011 is a ways away still, and kind of puts the kibosh on rumors of an iOS 4.3 update in December (unless that’s really only to support subscription newspapers for iPad).
VIdeo of AirPlay in action after the break… If you’ve tried out — or have been waiting to try out — AirPlay streaming to Apple TV, let us know your thoughts!
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