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It comes preinstalled on all mobile phones. If YouTube were just a website like any other video host, people wouldn't care. Do you really care about which vide
by betwixthewires 5y ago
It comes preinstalled on all mobile phones.
If YouTube were just a website like any other video host, people wouldn't care. Do you really care about which video host a video you want to watch is on? No, more than likely you care about the video itself.
But YouTube is an app, on your phone, click it and search for what you want, oh whatever you're looking for is probably on YouTube anyway.
And that's another thing, YouTube is basically the only site with google search embedded into itself that only searches itself. Imagine a video search engine like YouTube that showed you results from all sorts of video sites.
These two things together are why. Want to find a video? Click the video finding app on your phone. Oh, it only searches YouTube? Oh well, the video is probably on YouTube anyway.
- mattl 5y agoNo longer preinstalled on iPhones. Not for a long while now since Apple’s app was discontinued in favor of Google’s own app.
- betwixthewires 5y agoI wonder what the usage metrics for disparate video hosts look like around the time of that change, and also the change on DDG to showing other video host results and their deal with Apple. I'd be willing to bet viewership on other sites went up and YouTube went down to some degree.
- ndiddy 5y agoIt's a shame, Apple's app was far better than Google's, to the extent that I stayed on iOS 5 (last version that had the old app) until they shut off the API it was using.