Youtube is mostly best-of-breed due to being the incumbent with network effects. They couldn't even compete well with Twitch or Spotify for their respective niches.
> For reasons I don't understand, almost no one except Google can reliably stream video.
I can think of a market with say 6 or so major players that all stream video in HD and even 4K very well across the world.
> I can think of a market with say 6 or so major players that all stream video in HD and even 4K very well across the world.
I suppose that market is lucrative enough that they've never been tempted to spin off a mainstream version. Else they'd absolutely be the front-runners to beat Google at that game, I'd think.
Come to think of it, they should also have a pretty good corpus (ha, ha) to launch a variety of machine-learning products that might well outdo Google in certain areas.
> For reasons I don't understand, almost no one except Google can reliably stream video.
I can think of a market with say 6 or so major players that all stream video in HD and even 4K very well across the world.