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Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by dingo_bat »

ashark wrote: post #34
dubcanada wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but Google is exceptionally good at fragmentation and confusion in regards to products. How many gmail apps do they have? Inbox, gmail, android mail (though this got deprecated), web interface, etc. Youtube now has 2 apps, a web interface. They seem to like to make new stuff, rather then upgrade their existing stuff. Then every second year they just go through their stack and deprecate 30% of it.

> Inbox, gmail, android mail (though this got deprecated) Don't forget the cleanest, best-performing one: the classic "Basic HTML" interface. Which manages to be much faster for most operations than Inbox or the AJAXified normal version despited having to reload the whole page.

And inbox is the slowest and most non intuitive interface of all.

Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by grapeshot »

movedx wrote: post #132
qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're careful, you can get a good number of videos on a data plan, depending on what your cap is. At least, I can, but my cap is pretty big.

Can you expand more on what it is to be "careful"? What can I do to reduce the data usage when attempting to view a long video?

There is a setting in the YouTube app to only play in SD when not on WiFi but that may only be on Android. It's still not nearly as fine grained as it should be.

Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by dingo_bat »

So can I finally delete the fortune app from my phone? I think this forced installation of tens of useless Google apps on android is horrible. I don't use their crappy services and I should be able to delete their apps from my phone. And I don't want to root because that invalidates knox in my phone, which I need for office stuff.

I'm excited to use this new app but the older one should be deletable.

Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by 1024core »

sridca wrote: post #144

From http://www.youtubego.com/signup/ > Mazze udao, data nahin What language is this?

It is in Hindi. A literal translation would be something like "blow your fun, not your data", where the first "blow" means "expand", and the second "blow" is the traditional "explode" or "destroy".

Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by shostack »

baldfat wrote: post #32
ghostly_s wrote: post #20

As much as this sounds like something I would personally be very interested in, I can't help but think it doesn't fit into Google's ideal of how customers use their products. Rather I get the impression they're pursuing this begrudgingly just as a way to get into the Indian market; the announcement is notably non-committal about it ever being rolled out in the US.

I would say that I pay for YouTube Red because of in this order: Google Play Music is awesome YouTube offline videos YouTube no ads

But no list view for music. Because when I'm on a tiny mobile screen I want to see over 3/4 of my artist list covered in album thumbnails that I don't recognize and half the text cut off because grid view is the hot new thing.

Still, hard to beat the value and the mood-based radio stations are awesome.

Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by sridca »

1024core wrote: post #146
sridca wrote: post #144

From http://www.youtubego.com/signup/ > Mazze udao, data nahin What language is this?

It is in Hindi. A literal translation would be something like "blow your fun, not your data", where the first "blow" means "expand", and the second "blow" is the traditional "explode" or "destroy".

Thanks. I'm from India and I speak Tamil. It is eldritch when people use Hindi as representative of the whole country. Hindi, along with English, may be an official language - but more than half the population do not speak it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...

Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by Sargos »

izacus wrote: post #104
digi_owl wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect the problem is big media rather than Google.

Somehow Apple and some other companies manage to handle that way better, including offline downloads for content and the ability to give them my EUR. Google on the other hand refuses to even show us Podcasts category on Play music. Podcasts.

Apple doesn't have anything like YouTube.

And Google Play which is Google's equivalent of Apple's iTunes does allow offline downloads and does take your money.

Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

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Post by fpgeek »

izacus wrote: post #104
digi_owl wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect the problem is big media rather than Google.

Somehow Apple and some other companies manage to handle that way better, including offline downloads for content and the ability to give them my EUR. Google on the other hand refuses to even show us Podcasts category on Play music. Podcasts.

You're comparing apples and oranges. Apple doesn't provide anything like YouTube. If they did, they would have similar issues - there are all sorts of legal and business constraints associated with that kind of service.

A more appropriate comparison would be comparing the iTunes movie and TV store with Google's equivalent (Google Play Movies & TV):

* Both have movie purchases in over 100 countries. Apple has TV purchases in 6 countries [1]. Google has them in 8 [2]

* Both allow offline download of purchased videos. Google also allows downloading purchases to SD cards (less relevant for Apple).

* Google has a web-based player for purchased videos. Apple doesn't, AFAIK.

* Apple has carrier billing in 6 countries [3]. Google has it in 45 [4]. Google also allows you to use PayPal in a number of countries.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204411

[2] https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2843119?hl=en

[3] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205102

[4] https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2651410?hl=en

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