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Related: "Why does Microsoft not have a video platform like YouTube?": https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Microsoft-not-have-a-video-platform-like-Youtube-while-i

Related: "Why does Microsoft not have a video platform like YouTube?": https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Microsoft-not-have-a-video-platform-like-Youtube-while-it-has-alternatives-for-most-Google-products https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Microsoft-not-have-a-video-pl... Future To-Do: Get Microsoft to create/buy its own video sharing service...

umeshunni 6y ago
I remember a few YouTube competitors from Microsoft 10+ years ago - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Soapbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Soapbox
modeless 6y ago
They had Mixer and gave up on it rather abruptly.
- AdmiralAsshat 6y ago
  Wasn't that more of a Twitch alternative than YT?
  - modeless 6y ago
    Well, YouTube also competes with Twitch, but yes. Still doesn't bode well for a YouTube competitor though.
  - dcjintel 6y ago
    A twitch competitor failed for what I believe will be the same reasons a youtube competitor will fail.
- scott31 6y ago
  They did a deal with Facebook which is planning to launch a Twitch competitor.
kube-system 6y ago
TikTok? :D
- Firebrand 6y ago
  Not if Oracle and Sequoia have anything to say about that.
pmoriarty 6y ago
While more competition is good, I'm ultimately not very excited about content hosting, discovery, and distribution being owned by any one entity or handful of entities. In the long run, humanity has to find some robust, egalitarian, decentralized models of communication or we're all going to be beholden to their owners who are going to have ever more control over what we say, think, and do.
- causality0 6y ago
  I hope one day we'll have post offices of the internet. Government-run, not for profit but at a balanced budget, with services provided at cost, and subject only to the communications laws of the countries in which they operate.
  - type0 6y ago
    > post offices of the internet. Government-run I sure hope not, who would run it in US, NSA?
    - causality0 6y ago
      How about the US Postal Service?

umeshunni 6y ago

I remember a few YouTube competitors from Microsoft 10+ years ago - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Soapbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Soapbox

modeless 6y ago

They had Mixer and gave up on it rather abruptly.

AdmiralAsshat 6y ago
Wasn't that more of a Twitch alternative than YT?
- modeless 6y ago
  Well, YouTube also competes with Twitch, but yes. Still doesn't bode well for a YouTube competitor though.
- dcjintel 6y ago
  A twitch competitor failed for what I believe will be the same reasons a youtube competitor will fail.
scott31 6y ago
They did a deal with Facebook which is planning to launch a Twitch competitor.

kube-system 6y ago

TikTok? :D

Firebrand 6y ago
Not if Oracle and Sequoia have anything to say about that.

pmoriarty 6y ago

While more competition is good, I'm ultimately not very excited about content hosting, discovery, and distribution being owned by any one entity or handful of entities. In the long run, humanity has to find some robust, egalitarian, decentralized models of communication or we're all going to be beholden to their owners who are going to have ever more control over what we say, think, and do.

causality0 6y ago
I hope one day we'll have post offices of the internet. Government-run, not for profit but at a balanced budget, with services provided at cost, and subject only to the communications laws of the countries in which they operate.
- type0 6y ago
  > post offices of the internet. Government-run I sure hope not, who would run it in US, NSA?
  - causality0 6y ago
    How about the US Postal Service?