Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone 476
First time accepted submitter Bent Spoke writes "In a bit of delicious irony, Microsoft laments Google is not playing fair by excluding access to meta-data on YouTube, preventing the development of the kind of powerful app readily available on Android. From the article: 'In a blog post on Wednesday, Microsoft VP and deputy general counsel Dave Heiner said the software giant has spent two years trying to get a first-class YouTube app running on Windows Phone, but to no avail, thanks to the Chocolate Factory's stonewalling.
"YouTube apps on the Android and Apple platforms were two of the most downloaded mobile applications in 2012, according to recent news reports," Heiner wrote. "Yet Google still refuses to allow Windows Phone users to have the same access to YouTube that Android and Apple customers enjoy."'"
3 users (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure the 3 WP users are extremely upset over this.
Re:User Agent? (Score:3, Funny)
L'Arroseur Arrosé (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe google already knows the punchline (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What goes around comes around (Score:5, Funny)
Khama, Sir Seretse |käm|
(1921–80), Botswanan statesman; prime minister of Bechuanaland 1965 and first president of Botswana 1966–80.
Quite the strange concept to experience NO DOUBT!
Re:The joys of proprietary software (Score:5, Funny)
I would say that it serves Microsoft right, but unfortunately it's the end users that suffer.
Yeah, all both of them.
Re:Nothing to celebrate if it's true (Score:3, Funny)
Indeed, same happened with Apple licensing maps. Notice how youtube on iOS is a Google app, not by Apple any more, because Apple probably doesn't have access to the metadata either. Google has reached the point where it has enough power and now that others want to play with its toys he says "meh, I'm going home, you can't have them". Consumers will decide if that is good or not. Us techies can only watch and cry for the abstract concept of justice.
Whining Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Apple just let Google create a Youtube app after they failed to agree on API access. the iPhone is way more popular than Windows Phone devices, so it made financial sense for Google to do so. So maybe MIcrosoft should offer to pay Google to create an app for Windows Phone.
Re:User Agent? (Score:4, Funny)
Airborne chairs?
Re:What goes around comes around (Score:5, Funny)
He was a bitch.
I'm going with... (Score:5, Funny)
...Google will write that app for the Windows Phone platform when they consider the platform to have enough adopters to make the effort worthwhile. Perhaps they should start with a Symbian based client. Follow that up with a WebOS based one as well.
Re:What goes around comes around (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe he's from Boston?
Re:What goes around comes around (Score:4, Funny)
I believe it's Baaastin...
Cheers!
Re:User Agent? (Score:5, Funny)
Their weapons are incompetence, lawyers and flying chairs.