[Osx-nutters] Why Steve Jobs should buy YouTube

[Patrick Coskren]

On Aug 21, 2006, at 1:32 PM, 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 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. 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.

I liked how the article's author described himself as a "serial  
entrepreneur".  That just *screams* 90s bullshit artist with a trail  
of failed companies behind him.

-Patrick