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As far as YouTube's bandwidth bill goes, it is probably low, as discussed a couple months back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886109 http://news.ycombina
by msg 17y ago
As far as YouTube's bandwidth bill goes, it is probably low, as discussed a couple months back:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886109 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886109
I wouldn't deny that the Microsoft seems to be improving the Xbox from the customer's point of view... but I think the larger point is that the Xbox program is in the red.
There was already a convergent device for the living room. It's a computer with an HDMI cable and a wireless keyboard, or maybe a wireless tablet. Packaging it as a console with funky controllers is not a game changer, no matter how many games come out for it.
- xsmasher 17y agoThe thrust of that article is that YouTube's bandwidth bill at Google is zero, because of Google's dark fiber / peering. If MS had bought them the bill might be astronomical.
- willwagner 17y agoIf Microsoft had purchased YouTube, I don't think it would have had the same low bandwidth costs that Google enjoys per that article.