Apple Inc. gave consumers another reason to consider its upcoming iPhone the coolest convergence device yet: YouTube video clips. Over 10,000 videos will be available when the highly anticipated gadget debuts on June 29, and YouTube will add more each week until its full catalog of videos is available in the iPhone's H.264 format this fall.

If consumers flock to the iPhone as they did to the iPod, online video is likely to soar even further in popularity, good news for the dozens of convergence companies covered in Tech Confidential's special report on convergence in this week's issue of The Deal.

But not everyone is ready to become a fan. John R. Quain, who writes about gadgets and other technology regularly for The New York Times and other pubs (and, by the way, is married to this reporter), blogs on his Top 10 Reasons Not to Line Up for an iPhone. —Mary Kathleen Flynn

See Apple press release
See Tech Confidential's special report on convergence
See J-Q.com