A recent rumor indicates that the next version of the iPhone firmware might leave out the YouTube player applications entirely, in favor of a Safari YouTube plugin. However, the big news here isn’t just the way you’ll be viewing YouTube content come June. Unless Apple has somehow embedded a local YouTube application into Safari, the ability to play YouTube videos through a browser would require the use of Flash. That’s right- the thing iPhone users have been begging for since rumors began surfacing a few months ago.

Although I don’t think that Apple adopted Flash support just for YouTube, I do think that Flash will come around just after the June keynote. In regards to this rumor, I can’t help but be suspicious that the “plugin” is just a way to access the existing YouTube player through Safari. Bummer indeed.

Via: The Boy Genius Report