alt Hacker NewsIt's absurd to say that Google did not develop YouTube. They acquired it at a point where it was a galaxy-scale cash incinerator and made it work economically using their superior platform.
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adam_arthur • yesterday at 4:53 PM
aka waited for cost of storage, bandwidth, compute to come down below revenue from advertising.
As it would have done naturally anyway
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Yeah. I was going to say. I really dislike Google, but what they did with YouTube (whose acquisition I saw as a mistake at the time) is impressive.