Amiga founder RJ Mical now works for Google

[Kesa]

Without Google there wouldn't be YouTube. YouTube is the best thing the internet has to offer. Period.

On the other hand Google isn't fighting the good fight for net neutrality anymore.

I'm not so worried about data mining from Google. It's Facebook I'm worried about personally.

[Kesa]

Uhm, wasnt YouTube some dotcom startup company Google bought? That was many many years ago though...

Too bad neither Google or YouTube is working here in China. Now when I am forced to use other search engines (like Bing and Yandex) I am starting to miss it.

Yeah YouTube was a start up but it was only an idea that never would have come into fruition with a major investor willing to invest millions of $ into it like Google has done. If you take a step back and think about how much it would cost to operate something like YouTube and then think about how little profit they are most likely not (?) getting they have my utter most respect. No one else other than Google could have made YouTube work.

Google also do other cool stuff like maps and drive which I adore.

p.s. what do you do in China?

[Kesa]

YouTube is the only video channel worth watching. Sure the adverts are annoying but look at how that income improves the service. It allows greater exposure for talented people and also increases the quality of the material. Some YouTubers can even give up their day jobs to make <10 minute videos for a living.

Without Google running YouTube we wouldn't have channels like this:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCODtTcd5M1JavPCOr_Uydg

or this:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA

The two above are my favourite channels at the moment but there are many more.

YouTube is also the only video service that I know of offering 4k videos. And soon will be playing videos at 60 fps. YouTube rocks!