Yep, I'm sure it's some of the same people using it. I really never understood using these it's too risky. If you need a VPN get a virtual server you can use or something.
In this case, it's because you want to select the country out of a large list, some of which you cannot easily get a virtual server in. Normal people can't maintain a dozen virtual servers around the world and build their own VPNs just to watch television.
One of the reasons I didn't go with another Android phone after my last one broke is I don't trust google. I noticed things like it recommending me add people I've been around on google plus. Recommending contacts based on some random text etc.
I, too, am concerned that results on my phone are not as good as the results on the computer. I often get search pages that are nothing but ads and unable to find things that, on a computer, are easy to search for. I've never been happy with mobile-only pages or mobile-altered search results.
Everyone has a reason for what they do. I'm sure Google felt it made sense when they set that up, which was probably at least 10 years ago.
Making sense often just means being lazy. Being lazy or not bothering are common, logical reasons for doing things. I just wish that the reasoning was better than that.
I'm not disagreeing but remember that what may be totally illogical to us might make perfect sense to someone else.
I never implied that laziness was illogical. It's perfectly logical. Their laziness outranked their desire for a good user experience. Extremely logical.
This has really been a long time coming. X11 is very old and a lot of people have been trying to figure out how to get this replaced. Probably makes sense that Google really just took the lead on this.
@thecreativeone91 I thought that the HTML5 spec was going to have specific file and codec types specified. Was that dropped?
No. it just provides a way to present the video. It's up to the browser to support the codec. H.264 is the most common, but even then there are differnt types as it's a GOP codec there's I frames and P frames. where I frames are key frames and P frames are rendered by the computer as inbetween frames at the time of playback using a lot more cpu. All I frames take less cpu usage but are much bigger in size.
Google has been providing WiFi to Silicon Valley for quite some time, I would think with their fiber rollout the next big step could be to use the fiber as a backbone and provide WiFi.
From the Article it's not going to be Wifi but, more like cellular with a new frequency spectrum. Which is odd to change it up either way, especially since their target is cell phone users.
