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1 posted on 04/21/2015 11:55:16 PM PDT by Swordmaker

To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; altair; ...

Google decides pulls the YouTube plug on older iPhones, iPads, AppleTV, and older smartTVs — PING!

Google pulls YouTube APIs for older devices Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

2 posted on 04/22/2015 12:00:18 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)

Google Inc, aka Indian Giver!!

4 posted on 04/22/2015 12:33:05 AM PDT by lee martell (The sa)

Wish they’d never bought YouTube

5 posted on 04/22/2015 12:46:03 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)

What a shock for owners of certain smart TVs. They assumed that if they could get youtube on it they would always be able to get youtube on it.

7 posted on 04/22/2015 1:52:36 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)

Google is the old Microsoft. This is just horrible support.

9 posted on 04/22/2015 2:31:23 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)

I was still able to play YouTube videos in Safari on my old iPhone 3GS (released in 2009, now on iOS6), but not on my first-generation iPhone (2007/iOS3).

13 posted on 04/22/2015 3:57:30 AM PDT by ReignOfError

Piss enough people off and they’ll eventually discover Vimeo or Metacafe.

14 posted on 04/22/2015 4:13:29 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")

Paper never requires an upgrade.

15 posted on 04/22/2015 4:37:13 AM PDT by JacksonCalhoun (Ignoring liberals is the best medicine.)

YouTube is a pretty good service. Hope I don’t lose support on any of my devices. I use it a lot to play music videos while piddling around the house.

I’ve never been able to figure out how 100’s of full length current and old movies can be posted on YouTube but if you download the same movie you risk getting busted. Same with the music.

16 posted on 04/22/2015 4:42:37 AM PDT by IamConservative (If fighting fire with fire is a good idea, why do the pros use water?)

I have a ginormous Samsung TV that’s not smart. I use it as a ginormous monitor for an Asus tablet and stream stuff via Firefox.

I don’t get why all those bells and whistles on TVs are even necessary.

21 posted on 04/22/2015 5:04:17 AM PDT by Wage Slave

You can still get youtube, or the internet actually, on your tv if you hook a HDMI cord a your laptop.

23 posted on 04/22/2015 5:09:47 AM PDT by Leep (To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)

This is the modern, tech version of the reason I have never liked “all-in-one” solutions.

Back when makers began building VCRs into TVs... VCR’s were notoriously unreliable - thus buy an overpriced TV with one built in... and face having a kludge TV with a broken VCR after just a couple of years... not exactly graceful then trying to hook up an external player.

Then they began building DVD players in... same issue.

And all along, computer makers (including Apple) doing the same... the convenience of an “All-In-One”, but with the reality that different components die at different ages - so you may have a great display that cannot be used because the CPU or other components are dead... And repairing the individual components can be cost-prohibative.

The convenience of a “SmartTV”... Except that the TV itself will likely outlast the apps/programs built in, so eventually you either have to just replace the whole thing, despite the working LCD, or figure out an external solution (which you could have done in the first place).

Personally - I prefer components (I’m old-school in that regard - still use component audio gear at home)

28 posted on 04/24/2015 8:53:15 AM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)

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