YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion
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TheAvenged87
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Yeah, companies are becoming juggernauts. Scary, but there isn't really any way to stop them.
Dohc-WP
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the main concern with a company like google is privacy, they're practically controlling our lives and we dont realise it
S1ght
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How exactly are they controlling our lives? :/
S1ght
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Sheesh, why are people so anti Google
I'll respond to this in a similar way to my last comment. How is it ruined? Last I checked it was doing pretty dang well
And I don't accept the Google+ argument because the comment section was actually pretty stupid before when you tried to follow conversation >.<As for privacy concerns...I don't exactly have anything to hide and I've never had any issues with Google "selling" off my details to anyone.
Tsar
The thing that should not be
Dude the reason why they not being opposed is they prob have big military nsa sort of contracts. So does fb. NSA spying is a real thing. You have to be so careful what you say on the net.
nedGAR
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Sheesh, why are people so anti Google
I'll respond to this in a similar way to my last comment. How is it ruined? Last I checked it was doing pretty dang well
As for privacy concerns...I don't exactly have anything to hide and I've never had any issues with Google "selling" off my details to anyone.
Well they turned the player to garbage.
S1ght
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Elaborate? :/
Tom
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The one thing they have changed that drives me insane is the fact that once a video is played, you have to re buff it again to watch, even if you just want to skip back a bit, it re buffs, and if you leave a vid to buff fully then watch the vid uninterrupted, it no longer buffs the whole thing, only a portion...
S1ght
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See, at least you can give me reasons
I have noticed these things occasionally and I think it depends on whether it uses the Flash or the HTML5 player, which is switch they need to make so there's gotta be leeway for some bugs when it comes to a switch that big? The buffering a small portion is only on the Flash player I think? But that's just because they broke up the stream into small pieces as opposed to streaming you 1 large file. Just taking some educated guesses here but I imagine that'd help with threading downloads, as well as auto switching between quality levels seamlessly when it detects a drop in bandwidth?
Perhaps my opinions are a bit bias though as I'm pro most Google services
I just find it irritating when you read a comment on how YouTube or Google is going to ruin this or how they have ruined that but people are just over reacting in my opinion.I do however think Google is getting too large >.< But they seem a lil' better than most monopolies (looking at you Telkom -.-). I mean thanks to them, tons of people are able to make a very good living off something like YouTube. Android is awesome, Gmail is awesome, Google Search is awesome, Chrome is awesome...
My thoughts on all this o/
Tom
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Perhaps my opinions are a bit bias though as I'm pro most Google services
I do however think Google is getting too large >.< But they seem a lil' better than most monopolies (looking at you Telkom -.-). I mean thanks to them, tons of people are able to make a very good living off something like YouTube. Android is awesome, Gmail is awesome, Google Search is awesome, Chrome is awesome...
My thoughts on all this o/
Look im a Huge Google fan, And personally i couldnt care what they monitor, or what data they "collect" on me, as long as they dont steal my shit im happy
My entire online profile is all interlinked with google... My business, website, email, phone, tablet, you name it its all there... Im loving what im hearing about youtube basically becoming the next, bigger and better NetFlix, streaming pretty much anything and everything...
S1ght
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Look im a Huge Google fan, And personally i couldnt care what they monitor, or what data they "collect" on me, as long as they dont steal my shit im happy
Im loving what im hearing about youtube basically becoming the next, bigger and better NetFlix, streaming pretty much anything and everything...
Well this is what I don't understand. If you look at comments everywhere about this, people are almost freaking out over this >.< The most I see Google doing is maybe bringing Google+ login? Which everyone already has anyway?
Other than that, I've never personally used Twitch but I don't think Google would rather be more interested in seeing how they were able to succeed in that paid for subscription model? I can only see this helping both YouTube and Twitch out. It's not as arb as say Facebook buying Oculus >.<
Saint_Dee
The Phantom Poet
To be fair, I think people are reacting negatively as a result of Google's automated Copyright Claim system that caused an uproar and many a hassle not too long ago, and they might be worried about any content control changes that may make their way to Twitch.
I also have my misgivings to that end, but I do admit the move could be good for users in general if it means better streaming, and it could broaden the scope of what Twitch has already achieved (game streaming and broadcasting).
The move may be all about acquiring tech from Twitch. I guess we'll wait and see what the move means for everyone involved, but the content control worry is definitely a valid one.
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The move has the potential to be amazing, and the same potential to be a flop depending on what Google intend to do with their acquisition. And you do may a valid point relating to Twitch's success using the paid subscription model.
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