> Google is doing this to hurt the adoption of Windows Phone.
If you really believe that, I have a bridge to sell ... after I stop laughing.
If you really believe that, I have a bridge to sell ... after I stop laughing.
Google has obviously determined that WPs tiny marketshare isn't enough to justify creating a native app when the browser will work decently enough. Thinking otherwise is just ... idiotic.
Yes, Google is making a big deal out of this when apps like MetroTube already do the same thing. The difference here is its Microsoft, a huge company who has gone out of its way to sling shit on Google, instead of 2 dudes from NZ.
Then why don't they give access to the Youtube videos and ads API to Microsoft? Microsoft has stated that they're happy to add Google's ads if given access.
It's taken more than 20 years, but Microsoft is finally reaping the fruits of their bullying.
An eye for an eye is a bit extreme, but fear of retaliation is an important component of balanced societies; see e.g. The cold war or the Stanford prison experiment. It's time Microsoft start behaving less like.a psychopath bully and more like a member of society.
http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/28/youtube-xbox-app/
I guess they can forward the original e-mail to the WP devs...
Or perhaps the Xbox Youtube app was written by Google like the first line of your article says, so the Xbox devs don't have access to the API.
You sure write a lot of unintelligent comments in your haste to criticize MS and pump Google, but this one takes the cake.