[Osx-nutters] Why Steve Jobs should buy YouTube

[Kevin Callahan]

On Aug 21, 2006, at 10:32 AM, guy hammond wrote:

> Quoting Kevin Callahan <kcall at mac.com>:
>
>> certainly there is a demand for YouTube material
>
> Is there? I mean, would you pay to upload to or download from it?

i get a lot of links emailed to me on a daily basis to check out one  
clip or another

i just don't think Apple is interested in an advertising revenue model



>
> I wonder if YouTube is doing something clever on its backend and  
> it's just a
> showcase for some new streaming technology, which will later be  
> licensed to
> content providers.

could be

> Or maybe it wants to be an agent for licensing amateur
> content to traditional media companies, but that smells of a brand-
> building/mindshare/land grab/blah blah business model of the kind  
> that failed
> to get anywhere in the 90s.

yeah


>
> G
>
>
> --