• loie@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    google

    one app

    does one thing

    google

    why is this so hard to understand

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      9 months ago

      It’s likely not financially viable to have separate teams for their many products that all have similar features. Consolidating makes more sense because they can actually afford to maintain development.

      Honestly, they should just roll YouTube Music into the default YouTube app, as well. And they probably will at some point. It just doesn’t make sense to have these services - which are basically all the same, functionally-speaking - spread out across multiple apps.

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        9 months ago

        Honestly, they should just roll YouTube Music into the default YouTube app, as well.

        I don’t think I could disagree more. I use both and listening to music and watching videos are entirely different activities for me and I want the apps to do different things in different ways.

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        9 months ago

        The UI and use case for a video platform and a music app are very, very different

        • Chunk@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          My phone makes phone calls and browses the Internet. There are things that can do multiple things.

          The use case is not different. There is already music on YouTube. I rarely watch YouTube but I listen to it a lot. You’re not actually upset about the new app, you’re excited to shit on a company with harmful practices and you’re grasping at any argument you can find.

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            9 months ago

            No, I use both YouTube and YouTube music and they need different UIs and ways of navigating. While you could cram all of YouTube musics UI into a subsection of YouTube, it really doesn’t make sense to do so. I’m not just shitting on Google just because, I’m saying that the needs of music listening and YouTube video watching are different for many people.

            Honestly sounds like you don’t even need youtube, just YouTube music if all you ever use it for is listening.

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              9 months ago

              They “need” different UIs? Really you’ve never used an app or device that can do 2 things?

              Come on, that’s obviously a silly opinion. You’re just grasping at straws and I don’t really understand why.

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        9 months ago

        It’s likely not financially viable to have separate teams for their many products that all have similar features.

        Clearly Google doesn’t follow that logic because they have numerous competing chat apps. Even Google Maps has chat…