You asked for it, and it’s finally here: lynda.com videos are now iPhone and iPod Touch compatible.
All of our 2009 courses are already iPhone watchable, and we’ve got numerous servers munching away on 2008 courses, which will be available soon. And yes, we even have an iPhone app in the works, with a planned launch in early 2010.
Let us know what you think!
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CNET gave the lynda.com iPhone App a whirl and wrote about it on the cnet reviews blog.
We’re happy to be named Download of the Day at geeksugar.com. Check out the full story.
SmashingShare, a site covering “web resources, design inspiration, freebies and tutorials,” includes two lynda.com books in its list of 10 Useful Web Design and Development books.
Aaron over at Creative Calamities says lynda.com is his new best friend. After trying out a free trial, it appears he was hooked and had to subscribe.
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HUZZAH!! This is perfect! Now I’ll be able to squeeze in a few lessons when I’m “between.” It also probably means I’ll lose sleep watching a few late into the night!
Thank you for once again providing amazing customer service!
Keith
It’s great! Thanks so much! Now I can se the videos anywhere.
WOOOOOW !!! I switched to iphone this summer hopeing for this to happen !!! AND HERE WE GO !!! THANKS MUCH !!!
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Cool. I look forward to the actual app also as I’m sure it’ll have functionality that makes for a rich learning experience. It’s great to see websites like lynda.com thinking forward.
I can’t wait for the iPhone App! lynda.com is going to be taken along everywhere I go. That sounds a little too geeky, but what is better to do than learn when you have down time waiting for the train, or at the doctors office… Love it! lynda.com in my pocket, yeah!
Excellent news – can someone at lynda.com confirm whether the videos will work over 3G, or will they require a wireless connection?
Hi Mark. I’m one of the producers at lynda.com.
I’m happy to say that the movies work just fine on a 3G or on a wireless connection!
Fantastic!!! Very excited about this update… Now I can get my “learning on” everywhere AT&T works
And the iPhone app
I am already looking forward to it, keep up the fantastic work!!!
awesome!!! now i’lll be able to keep taking lessons while away from my computer.
Awesome awesome Lynda
YES!!!
Thank you for listening to your customers and delivering big time!! This is yet another good example of why you are simply the best video training provider on the planet…you provide!
SO EXCITED for the App.
Thanks for the update
B
It’s here! And faster than you promised, I heard December. This is great… New 24-70mm lens last week for my 5DMarkII, lynda.com’s CS4 videos this week. It’s all good!!
Great news. It would be even better if we can store them and watch them on the go.
Thanks anyway.
I’m a long-time subscriber, and I have to agree that being able to download and store videos would really add to the value of my subscription. I pay by the GB at home, and my 3G connection is pretty slow (I’m out in the boonies).
Even without the iPhone (which I’m getting), being able to download and store vids would help me get way better use out of my subscription. I would be fine with an expirey period too, of say 2 or 3 days. Just enough to get me though a bunch of lessons before I needed to do a huge download again.
Yes, I do realize I can pay an extra $99 to buy DVDs, but that’s so not a realistic option for me.
Cheers!
..Von
Thats wicked, I converted my small vid collection to mpeg4, it took weeks… It must have been a mammoth task doing all you’re tutorials… Thanks
Very nice.
How soon before you also make available all your tutorials via Flash Video :: now that, will have significant mass appeal.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks.
Hi Ed,
This is Max again from earlier in the comment stream. I’m a producer at lynda.com.
How soon will we have our tutorials available in Flash? Try TODAY! The same courses that are iPhone compatible are available as Flash videos as well. Just choose your course, click on the Course Preferences tab, and choose the Flash Beta Player preference.
It’s just a course-by-course preference for now, but the future holds some very cool stuff.
Great news and especially looking forward to an app!
Dreams *do* come true! Thanks!
..grabs iPhone..
How about posting this somewhere on the website. I learn about this now?! How long have they worked on an iPhone?
Bummer there’s no way to progress from one video to the next without going back to the navigation list. That really chops up the learning experience. Hopefully that’s a problem that will be solved with the upcoming iPhone app? (Which, BTW, makes 2010 seem so far away…)
Hi Dannie – It’s only been a couple of days since we announced iPhone compatibility. Soon we’ll be rolling out a new attribute on the site that lists and explains new features as they happen on lynda.com.
This is GREAT. Early 2010 – Jan 2nd? Hurry Please.
b.
This is GREAT news. I’ve been eagerly awaiting this. I hope the last left off works…I’m just about to try. You might want to announce clearly that these vids are access through the lynda.com website within the iphone’s safari browser, NOT a downloadable, no-internet-connection_available option. I was hoping for this, but I understand why with your subscription based model, DRM, and assumption that purchases and rentals with the iTunes store is not beneficial or in line with your business plan.
How great is this! Kudos to everyone at lynda.com who made this happen.
Finally
Now I can renew my subscription.
(maybe I’ll wait for the app though?)
I must agree that being able to “checkout” courses and not having to rely on the availability or download quotas related to our “network” usage would be a definite plus.
I also cannot wait for the iPhone app to come out as I am sure it will make our experience with lynda.com more palatable on this smaller screen format.
Any scoop on what this application will cost?
Would be nice to have the iPhone style pages as well… Navigation is tough without them. This is great news nonetheless!
Ok… you just made my day XD
This will be perfect!!! Just got a gift subscription…can’t wait to try it out!
When is the ETA for the iPhone app
Please make one for the upcoming iPad also.
I believe that iPad is perfect for the task.
And it has enough screen size to make the layout and menus look and perform beautifully.
I didn’t see any answers here.
When is the lynda app for iPhone going to
be released?
The most I can tell you officially about the lynda.com iPhone App right now is “soon”!