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by ffgjgf1 896 days ago
Are there that many smartphones that are actually capable of running YT and have a access to a version of Android/iOS that’s still supported and are 4g only?

iPhone 5 was the first to support 4G and I’m not sure the 4s or 4 are really suitable for watching YT these days?
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Vinnl 896 days ago
I think it's been fairly clear that people don't limit themselves to OS's that are still supported, and if you remove that condition from your question, I think the answer would be "yes".
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ffgjgf1 895 days ago
> I think the answer would be "yes".

Hardly. Good luck running non-supported OS’s on iOS devices. So all of the old iphones and ipads are out.

Even on Android only a tiny statistically irrelevant proportion would both with this.

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kcartlidge 894 days ago
I suspect the mention of OSs that are still supported implied they weren't talking about non-supported but no longer supported OSs. So nothing exotic, just the normal OS on the device but stuck at the old version which was the final one released for it.
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bArray 895 days ago
I have a 3G device still able to watch YT and a very old Kindle Fire that has NewPipe [1] installed for watching YT in bed (whilst my phone is on charge).

I don't see why not either - if the device was capable of H264 when it was released, why not now?

[1] https://newpipe.net/

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