Google's sudden push for India is kinda spooky.
YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers
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#82As 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.
you are right on. This is google-version of the facebook PR fiasco with free internet. They will never sell youtube RED to that market. RED is only for the san francisco bubble, where everyone already pay $100 overall for streaming services (hulu, netflix, pandora, spotify, etc, etc). But for those other markets, they actually still rely on eyeballs and ads. And on those markets, they have to open a few concessions t…
I'm not so sure this measures up to FaceBook's PR fiasco.
This is just another example of Google doing just enough in order to measure what may happen (throw stuff at the wall to see what sticks).
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#83Hopefully 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.…
I tend to use youtube-dl to grab what I want while at my laptop and sync to my phone so that I have things to watch while about. Not a perfect solution, but works for me for now.
Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers
#84As 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
I'd buy this in a heartbeat if I could. No big hopes that it will come soon where I live though - google is just not hungry like Netflix and co it seems.
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#85"While in Nagpur, I met a young man who loved using YouTube to watch WWE wrestling and wanted to show us his favorite video. But after he found it and tapped to play, the video just wouldn’t load" I believe this is really bad example, as WWE is a "premium content" so you have to pay extra to watch it. Therefore Youtube removes those videos (there is only 2 WWE videos which is from legal accounts). So it's pretty awkw…
This also struck me. I was surprised that they picked WWE of all things, you would think that video would be region locked and thus not available outside of the US, like a lot of things are.
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#86But there's no SD Card interface on iOS?
Re: YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers
#87"While in Nagpur, I met a young man who loved using YouTube to watch WWE wrestling and wanted to show us his favorite video. But after he found it and tapped to play, the video just wouldn’t load" I believe this is really bad example, as WWE is a "premium content" so you have to pay extra to watch it. Therefore Youtube removes those videos (there is only 2 WWE videos which is from legal accounts). So it's pretty awkw…
Shit, often videos "just don't load" and I am in the middle of a major US metro area.
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#88Hopefully 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.…
I tend to use youtube-dl to grab what I want while at my laptop and sync to my phone so that I have things to watch while about. Not a perfect solution, but works for me for now.
I use youtube-dl as well, though I don't sync that to my phone. I need to set up a more automatic mechanism to sync files to my phone when my phone and laptop are on the same network or in the same vicinity.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why isn't this a free feature though?
Good question, one that probably has less to do with what Google wants, and what the music industry requires. If you turn off the screen, the "video" is indistinguishable from an audio stream. So they want to track for terms of royalties paid per "listen". This is only feasible on a subscription basis (no one has a good microtransaction model with actual payments) and so Google and the music industry limited the feat…
But since Google owns the Android platform, they could make YouTube track usage even when it's off-screen (paused Android activity), right? Heck, that may even be feasible without special privileges. Not sure about iOS though.
I mean, if I can minimize a tab running YouTube on my PC, I don't see why I can't do that on my phone.