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it's seriously ironic - and kind of humurous - how a service starts out striving for the best and most convenient features and user experience, grows humongousl
by jdthedisciple 4y ago
it's seriously ironic - and kind of humurous - how a service starts out striving for the best and most convenient features and user experience, grows humongously big because of those and then becomes so gigantic that they think they have to cut back on the same...
eventually it will have 5 billion users and just serve a single, bland feed of random videos with no options and choices ...
... wait, no it will probably die before that happens.
- cube00 4y agoIt's not really, the service is designed to make money, it makes money from ads, it can only do this if the eyeballs stay on the service. If you can go from start to finish you might leave when you're done. Hard to leave when you only have a scatter gun way to view the content.
- thallium205 4y agoBut they are removing these features from people who pay them $20+/mo also…
- dbmnt 4y agoUnfortunately that's a small subset of users. MKBHD calculated it to be about $20 mil in revenue for paid users, compared to $2.6 bil from ads. His analysis is around the 8m30s mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1qsF0WQy8c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1qsF0WQy8c