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Facebook Portal needs more. At to the lowest degree it just added YouTube

To offset the creepiness of having Facebook's photographic camera and microphone in your house, its new Portal video chat gadget needs best-in-form software. Its hardware is remarkably well done, plus Messenger and the photograph frame feature piece of work smashing. But its third-party app platform was pretty skimpy when the device launched this week.

Facebook is increasingly relying on its smart display competitors to boost Portal's capabilities. It already comes with Amazon Alexa inside. And now, Google's YouTube is part of the Portal app platform. "Yes, YouTube.com is available through an optional install in the 'Portal Apps' catalog" a Facebook spokesperson tells me. You can open information technology with a "Hey Portal" command, but in that location currently seems to be no mode to queue up specific videos or control playback via vox.

The addition gives Portal much greater flexibility when it comes to video. Previously it could only play videos from Facebook Scout, Nutrient Network, or Newsy. It as well brings the device to closer parity with Google's Home Hub screen, the Google Assistant-powered smart displays from JBL and Lenovo, and the Amazon Echo Show 2 which Google blocked from using YouTube before Amazon added a spider web browser to the device to reopen YouTube admission.

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YouTube makes the most of the $349 Portal+'s 15.6-inch 1080p screen, the biggest and sharpest of the smart display crop. Whether for watching shows or recipe videos while making dinner, instructional clips while putting together furniture, or Baby Shark to go along the kids busy, Portal becomes a lot more useful with YouTube.

Only we're still waiting for the nigh exciting thing Facebook has planned for Portal: Google Assistant. A month ago Facebook's VP of Portal Rafa Camargo told me "Nosotros definitely have been talking to Google also. Nosotros view the future of these home devices . . . as where you lot volition have multiple assistants and you will use them for any they do best . . . We'd similar to expand and integrate with them." At present a Facebook spokesperson tells me that they "Don't take an update on Google Banana today just we're working on adding new experiences to Portal."

The potential to put both Google and Amazon's voice assistants on one device could make Portal'due south software stronger than either competitor's devices. Many critics have asked if Facebook was naive or calloused to launch Portal in the wak of privacy bug like the Cambridge Analytica scandal and its contempo data breach. Merely as I found when testing the Portal with my 72-year-old female parent, non everyone is concerned with Facebook's privacy problems and instead see Portal as a style for the social network to truly bring them closer to their loved ones. With Amazon and Google racing to win the smart brandish market, Facebook may see it worth the tech insider backlash to have a shot at mainstream success before its boxed out.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/11/facebook-portal-youtube/

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