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Agreed. Some other examples: It counts Jamboard (the device) and Google Jamboard (the app) as two different things, despite the link to the news of their death
by fngjdflmdflg 2y ago
Agreed. Some other examples:
It counts Jamboard (the device) and Google Jamboard (the app) as two different things, despite the link to the news of their death being in the same article and Google shutting them at the same time.[0]
It counts YouTube go which was an optimized version of YouTube for slow devices in developing countries. Google claims these optimizations are no longer necessary. That makes sense as devices have gotten more powerful over time and a smartphone in the developing world should be enough to play YouTube videos in the regular YouTube app. Seems like the latest budget Itel model, which is popular in Africa,[1] the A50, has 3GB of RAM and 64GB ROM.[2] For comparison the iPhone SE from 2020 also had 3GB X 64GB. Running adb shell dumpsys meminfo while running a Youtube video shows the following: 585,268K: app.revanced.android.youtube. So it seems to me that the YouTube app may really not need a Go version anymore. Same for YouTube Leanback which was for the web. Similarly shutting down YouTube gaming probably did not actually affect users in any way. It's not like there were videos that were only accessible from that app.
[0] https://www.itel-india.com/product/a50/ https://www.itel-india.com/product/a50/
[1] https://www.pulse.ng/business/domestic/top-phone-brands-in-africa/cjx1vl5 https://www.pulse.ng/business/domestic/top-phone-brands-in-a...
[2] https://9to5google.com/2023/09/28/google-jamboard/ https://9to5google.com/2023/09/28/google-jamboard/