YouTube announces 'smartphone suitable for video playback', iPhone is not included

"Smartphone suitable for playing movies uploaded to YouTube" was announced. The lineup includes 19 Android terminals such as Galaxy Note 9 and Xperia XZ 2 Premium, but the iPhone does not seem to be included in the recommended smartphone.

YouTube Device Report
https://devicereport.youtube.com/

YouTube now recommends the best phones for video playback, and it does not suggest an iPhone - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/8/9/17671362/youtube-signature-device-video-watch-phone-recommend-galaxy-note-9-pixel-2-oneplus-6

The conditions to be chosen as the recommended terminal are as follows, and the evaluation item is that you can watch all the contents on YouTube with maximum performance.

1: HDR (high dynamic range)
2: 360 degree video playback
3: 4K decoding
4: High frame rate playback (60 fps or more)
5: Next generation codec (support for VP9 codec)
6: High performance of DRM (digital rights management)

The evaluation is based on the test which the YouTube employee actually touched the terminal. As the recommended smartphone at the time of writing, a total of 19 terminals including Samsung's "Galaxy Note 9", Sony's "Xperia XZ 2 Premium", HTC's "U 12 +", etc. are registered, all of which have an Android OS developed by Google I will.

Recommendations In particular, YouTube does not comment on the point that smartphone does not include iPhone. For this reason, some people think that 'iPhone is not strongly related to Google and its parent company Alphabet like Android or YouTube' is the reason why it was excluded from the recommended terminal. However, there is a fact that iOS installed in iPhone does not support VP 9 codec, there is a possibility that YouTube did not conform to the "next generation codec" set by the conditions and simply did not pass the test It is thought.

It is said that YouTube will review the certification criteria of the recommended terminal every year, and the lineup of the recommended smartphone is expected to change greatly every year.