YouTube Go is Shutting Down in August

YouTube Go is shutting down beginning this August, Google has announced this week. From a report: The lightweight Android app first launched in 2016 and features offline viewing and nearby sharing. Like other apps designed for emerging markets, YouTube Go includes a suite of features that take into consideration the high costs of data, poor signal strength and the prevalent use of SD cards on Android devices. YouTube Go first launched in India and later became available in more than 130 countries worldwide. The company notes that since 2016, it has invested in improvements to the main YouTube app that make it perform better in emerging markets, while also delivering a better user experience.

That's fine

[NateFromMich]

While they are at it, can they shut down Youtube Shorts as well?

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[Fly Swatter]

Is there some magical way to hide shorts on a desktop browser? They clog up any real content. All you see are results riddled with the stupid and useless S logo everywhere.

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[Tablizer]

Take it in the shorts?

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[Coren22]

Eat my shorts man!
-Bart

Oh no!

[Opportunist]

I'm sure both of its users are devastated.

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[youngone]

I'm devastated.

Oh, no wait. The other thing.

Indifferent.

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[Tranzistors]

Google Play page says it had "500 000 000+" downloads. Those two users must have been very busy.

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[Opportunist]

You don't even want to know how many things I downloaded, looked at, found out that it's rubbish and deleted.

Anything that's free will get downloaded and tried by a magnitude or two more people than what will actually use it more than once.

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[Tranzistors]

Fun fact: according to androidrank [androidrank.org], currently there are 157 apps that have 500 000 000 or more downloads. Which is a lot, given that apparently it's not available in "rich" countries.

It's clear that the issue was not that the product isn't used, but that it is eating away the profits from their main YT app.

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[Aighearach]

currently there are 157 apps that have 500 000 000 or more downloads

It's clear that the issue was not that the product isn't used

No, that isn't clear at all. Most people use so much fewer than 157 apps, that the statistic would seem to support the idea that very few people use it. Even the top 50 downloaded apps would be likely to include unpopular apps that people download but then don't use, and don't recommend to their friends, and that didn't gain traction and were already abandoned. Which is also very consistent with the fact that this story is about them abandoning this app.

They are changing the name to

[Tablizer]

"Google Stop"

Correction

[Tablizer]

Correction: "YouTube Stop".

(El Botcho)

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[Coren22]

I suppose they could use that creepy girl robot from Squid Game as the logo.