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Why Google Yanked YouTube Access From Microsoft’s Windows Phone App
- mmariani 13y agoSame happened to iOS which once had a nice youtube app written by Apple in ObjC. Now we have a crappy youtube app written in ObjC by Google. I guess these moves make sense to Google from a business perspective. However, they hurt users and ultimately it will hurt the company image. Don't be evil was nothing more than a marketing hack.
- briandear 13y agoDon't be evil. To borrow a Clintonism, "It depends what the definition of 'evil' is"
- jarjoura 13y agoI think it ultimately came down to this... "It was also not pleased that Microsoft had built its own system to interface with Google’s ads so that they could be delivered to the application. It might break, and so forth." It's still douchey of Google to outright block Microsoft, since the original Apple made version of YouTube only shows videos that do not want advertising (granted a smaller and smaller # of videos).
- briandear 13y agoOk 'closed ecosystem' iOS haters. Where's your google outrage? When it comes down to it, every major tech company has some variation of a walled garden. Just Google is a little less obvious about it.
- bowlofpetunias 13y agoLet's just get this straight once and for all: Google is an advertising company. Anything that even remotely threatens that, and the mask of the nice open and ethical tech company comes off.
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