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		hoggle on Jan 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup Deep... To be fair, Youtube could have been so much more. For example they recently removed the video response feature while claiming the click-through rate was abysmal - it probably was because the focus of Youtube is more like "Newtube". TV now means on demand and broadcast via internet/web, simple and boring as that.

enscr on Jan 27, 2014 [–]

Youtube would have died by itself.

Or imagine what Yahoo would have done to it post acquisition.

I know Apple would have called at iTube & put a price tag of $0.99 on all decent ones :)

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