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Re:Average product lifespan of Google products before it kil... by dmurray on Friday November 22, 2019 @05:58PM (#21611015)
Why don't these devices run Android? Pretty sure you can run YouTube on a 2011 Android release. That's not important to Sony, of course, but even for new hardware it seems easier to make it run Android and shovel your bloatware on it than to develop your own half-assed OS for each TV model.
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Re:Average product lifespan of Google products before it kil... by clhodapp on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:27PM (#21611182)
Google TV is a super-mutated version of Android... Google turned their back on it in 2014 in favor of something that was closer to normal Android.
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Re:Average product lifespan of Google products before it kil... by sorenjan on Friday November 22, 2019 @09:15PM (#21611977)
Youtube's required Android version is listed as varying depending on device on Google Play, but on apkmirror.com it says that the minimum version is Android 4.4+. That was released in 2013.

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/youtube/youtube-14-...

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Re:Average product lifespan of Google products before it kil... by londons_explore on Saturday November 23, 2019 @03:51AM (#21613164)
That's for the latest version of YouTube, but I believe an old version of YouTube will still work fine with today's servers, at least for basic video watching (commenting etc. broke in the big Google plus debacle)
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