[moondowner]

Sometimes people download it because there's no alternative. E.g. the YT app is not available in the play store in their country on that specific hardware, so the only way to be able to view YT is to use an alternative app like this one.

[ninalanyon]

> the only way to be able to view YT

Surely you can use a web browser?

[zero_iq]

The user experience accessing YouTube through a web browser on a TV (the main target audience for SmartTube) is less than ideal.

TV and set-top box browsers tend to be slow and fiddly to use from a TV remote. (And often running on underpowered hardware).