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Google Pulls YouTube Off the Amazon Echo Show
- Top19 9y agoGoogle cancelled Amazon’s access without warning because the Echo Show “creates a broken user experience”. I get that it’s a 1st gen device, but that statement sounds like Equifax wrote it with such blatant bullshit from Google. What are they going to do next, tell me that Oracle is cheaper than MySQL??
- perseusprime11 9y agoGoogle did something similar when they pulled the youtube app on Windows Phone. They really know how to not be evil.
- golfer 9y agoMicrosoft's app removed all the ads. Simple TOS violation. Very straight forward.
- perseusprime11 9y agoHere's the real reason: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/microsoft_on_the_issues/2013/08/15/the-limits-of-googles-openness/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/microsoft_on_the_issues/...
- golfer 9y agoAmazon inexplicably banned sales of Chromecast on Amazon.com some time ago. [0] What goes around comes around. [0] https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2015/10/2/9439281/amazon-ban-apple-tv-chromecast-why https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2015/10/2/9439281/amaz...