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It’s obvious that Google intentionally withholds their software from platforms that could compete with their Android and ChromeOS devices (which are of course A
by pavlov 3y ago
It’s obvious that Google intentionally withholds their software from platforms that could compete with their Android and ChromeOS devices (which are of course ARM-based).
They did the same to Windows Phone back in the day. Not having apps like YouTube left the platform at a clear disadvantage because they can’t be credibly replaced by third party clients (YouTube doesn’t tolerate them and will try to break them).
- madeofpalk 3y agoDid every other developer also withhold apps from Windows Phone intentionally to prevent competition with their operating systems?
- vdaea 3y agoBesides Google and Snapchat most other platforms had apps (of varying levels of quality, though)
- kotaKat 3y agoYep, enjoyed getting banned from Snapchat for using a third party client on Windows Phone.
- IcyWindows 3y agoSnapchat would not allow a port no matter how much money Microsoft offered them.
- jsheard 3y agoIs Microsoft also intentionally withholding software from Windows ARM? They only just shipped a fully native Visual Studio for ARM in December, four years after releasing the ARM-based Surface Pro X, and a decade after their earlier ARM push with the Tegra-based Surfaces.
- my123 3y agoVisual Studio had to wait for .NET Framework (not .NET Core) to be ported to ARM64 native. Quite a part of Microsoft wanted to avoid doing that outright, so it took quite a while to happen.
- jsheard 3y agoI see https://imgur.com/XLuaF0h https://imgur.com/XLuaF0h is as relevant as ever.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoGoogle has supported ARM Chromebooks for years; if MS was shipping software for Darwin on Apple silicon or Linux on ARM then yeah that would be a weird look
- zamadatix 3y agoMicrosoft does ship ARM64 software for macOS and Linux though. E.g. .net core, PowerShell, and VS Code come to mind. Some of the Office suite ships ARM64 on macOS only as well (Teams, Word, Excel, Outlook, etc) and, back to the topic of browsers, Edge too of course.