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Man, Mark Cuban and his disdain for YouTube. I don't understand it sometimes. In general, all of Google's businesses are built to take advantage of large techn
by ALee 17y ago
Man, Mark Cuban and his disdain for YouTube. I don't understand it sometimes.
In general, all of Google's businesses are built to take advantage of large technological trends. Bandwidth will get cheaper and they have found other ways to decrease the cost, e.g. having users click on the HQ/HD button. Fundamentally, Google has always believed that any content out there should eventually be made free because there will be almost no transaction cost with technology. The only way to make money off it is through targeted advertising.
- benmathes 17y agoHis disdain for YouTube comes from founding HDNet (www.hd.net), which is his play for where video entertainment will be after television. It's definitely not free. In other words, he is far from unbiased. He does disclose this in his other blog postings, though, so he's generally not trying to hide anything but instead argue why his solution is better.
- steve_mobs 17y agouploads to youtube are growing at an enormous rate and the more google penetrates into the american and global markets the more the rate will increase. The question is when will broadband get cheap enough to mitigate this? and how long is google willing to cover youtube's cost in the short run until broadband gets cheap enough?