We all remember videos used to fully load if you just left them be. Youtube sure, but also every other web player used to load the whole video if you left it loading. And now, it only ever loads 10 seconds so if you have bad connection you can never watch uninterrupted.
I understand maybe that one company stopped doing that because they messed up, but all of them? I really can’t understand how ALL webplayer companies on the planet decided to make their product worse and there is NO competitor who goes back to the old ways and with that would probably win a ton of market share again.
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Why does nobody just build an old web player that everybody loves? Why do we have to live with a worse product and no alternatives?
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Imagine you have a banana stand.
Everyone who comes to the banana stand can get up to 5 full bananas.
You start out by giving anyone who comes 5 Bananas whether they want all 5 bananas or not.
However one day you notice a bunch of people were throwing out the bananas. It turns out they didn’t actually want all 5 bananas. They just wanted 1 or 2.
You thought this was wasteful. In order to not waste bananas and save money you start to give out bananas 1 at a time. Anyone can still get 5 bananas, but only if they ask for them 1 by 1.
You can think of a banana as a 10 second packet of video, and some people just want to watch a little bit of a video, not the whole thing.
So in order to save money youtube (and other video players) only gives you what you ask for when you need it, instead of giving it to you all at once.
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