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

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Post by carsongross »

chickenfries wrote: post #21
carsongross wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Did you even read about any of the features here? > No, that is just my knowledge from using YouTube and my experience with ad trafficking. Never change, HackerNews comments.

> Did you even read about any of the features here? This was referring to the fact that the main features that the article discussed were about previewing videos and peer to peer video sharing, which are tangible UX improvements that have nothing to do with showing the user more ads. Can I clear anything else up for you?

Nope. That's about it.

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

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Post by baldfat »

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

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

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Post by flinty »

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.

Agreed 100%. Same was the case with Google maps download for offline use. They added that feature after a lot of feet dragging.

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Post by ashark »

dubcanada wrote: post #13
gtirloni wrote: post #7

I don't understand why a new app if this could just be an additional feature in the current app. Doesn't this lead to fragmentation and confusion?

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.

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Post by skynetv2 »

This should be made available every where. But then they can't charge us for offline and background play.

YT would get more views actually if they allowed offline now. It would also help with the puny data allowances wireless carriers are imposing these days. The offline will take the power away (in a small way), from the carriers.

They can provide the same experience as today, ads and all. People can watch YT on flights, while driving and what not. Amazon video allows offline usage today and been for a while.

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Post by ultramancool »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #19

Hopefully this will actually work in all countries; I'd love to save videos for offline viewing while I have a wifi connection and watch them later when I don't. But that would compete with "YouTube Red". For that matter, since an offline video eliminates the buffering problem, I'd love to have the "playback speed" feature in the mobile app. The web version of YouTube supports changing the playback speed to 1.25x, 1.…

Try NewPipe, it's an open source YouTube downloader and background player for Android:

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.schabi.newpi...

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

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Post by JoshTriplett »

ultramancool wrote: post #36
JoshTriplett wrote: post #19

Hopefully this will actually work in all countries; I'd love to save videos for offline viewing while I have a wifi connection and watch them later when I don't. But that would compete with "YouTube Red". For that matter, since an offline video eliminates the buffering problem, I'd love to have the "playback speed" feature in the mobile app. The web version of YouTube supports changing the playback speed to 1.25x, 1.…

Try NewPipe, it's an open source YouTube downloader and background player for Android: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.schabi.newpi...

Looks promising. Doesn't seem to support subscriptions, though, which is the problem every unofficial YouTube app seems to have. Probably because logging in and accessing subscriptions requires the API, which has a ToS.

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Post by ksk »

dragonwriter wrote: post #23
gtirloni wrote: post #7

I don't understand why a new app if this could just be an additional feature in the current app. Doesn't this lead to fragmentation and confusion?

> I don't understand why a new app if this could just be an additional feature in the current app. Its a ground-up rewrite of the app with a very different experience focus and for a different audience. It wouldn't make much sense as a feature of the existing app.

But why would it need a rewrite? Adding a download and some other buttons?

>It wouldn't make much sense as a feature of the existing app.

Why?

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