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> don't care enough about the content creator to download another app just to watch their content. The HTML5 video tag exists - you don't need "another app", t
by zozbot123 8y ago
> don't care enough about the content creator to download another app just to watch their content.
The HTML5 video tag exists - you don't need "another app", though you might need another video host. There's very little inherent difference between YT and any other popular, large site. They host videos? Video is not that much more bulky than other website content anyway. (At least if you avoid gold-plating the service with 720p, 1080p, even 4K video streaming, which is just silly when the "content" is some cats doing whatever.) Websites come and go.
(And of course OSM data can be used to provide turn-by-turn routes, even with on-device processing. What makes you assume that this is not a thing?)
- rock_hard 8y agoThis is such bullshit! YouTube’s video streaming infra is a masterpiece of engineering and magnitudes of order better than a vanilla streaming setup! You might not notice because you live in a place with great internet...but most people don’t!
- darkpuma 8y agoTo provide people with poor internet connections with effective access to videos, youtube transcodes videos to various qualities. That's not cheap, but neither is it magic.
- rock_hard 8y agoThat’s a simplification of what’s actually happening and how well their implementation works though. Just travel to a third world country and look at how poorly other video services like Facebook, Vimeo, etc perform in comparison. There is some good posts from John Harding out there that get into the details