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There is also the problem where companies like Google refuse to acknowledge platforms apart from theirs. The iOS apps are usually faulty, and Google DMCAs any t

by cordite 12y ago

There is also the problem where companies like Google refuse to acknowledge platforms apart from theirs. The iOS apps are usually faulty, and Google DMCAs any third party apps that talk to their services on the windows platform.

fidotron 12y ago
This is going to bite them. Android has deteriorated so much I'm working out how to move to Windows phone which really means leaving the Google ecosystem completely. And my career has been Android based for many years now.
- cwyers 12y ago
  I have the 2012 Motorola X, and a Nokia Lumia 635 I picked up for $50 at Radio Shack a few weeks ago. I'm betting that the Lumia sees the Windows 10 preview before the Motorola X sees Lollipop. It's so bizarre.
cwyers 12y ago
I'm not sure there IS anyone like Google. Apple is all walled garden, but they don't offer all that many services that make sense outside of their platform anyway -- they don't offer anything like Maps or YouTube. (Well, I guess iTunes, but... Apple gonna Apple.) Amazon is outright weird about supporting non-Fire Android, but they've finally got Amazon Video available on other Android platforms, and stuff like Kindle readers are available for any platform imaginable. Amazon Video is also on the Xbox, Playstation, Wii and Wii U, Roku and all kinds of smart TV/I guess smart BluRay devices. With the weird exception of Xbox Video, Microsoft is pretty much falling all over themselves to be on every platform -- Xbox Music, Xbox Smartglass, Office, Outlook.com, OneNote... they're all on iOS and Android. Google has a Google PLay app for Roku, at least. They offer some stuff on iOS, but not as much as they do on their own platform. But they're not on Xbox. They're not on Playstation. I can at least reason out why they don't want to be on Windows Phone or such, but... Google isn't competing with the Xbox and Playstation, and they're kidding themselves if they think they are. Why not a Playstation app for movies?
- magicalist 12y ago
  > But they're not on Xbox. They're not on Playstation There's a google-made youtube app on xboxes and playstations. I've never actually tried buying a play store video so not exactly sure if it works on the consoles themselves, but you can at least purchase them on a computer and then watch them on the playstation (Kotaku did this for The Interview, for instance[1]) [1] http://kotaku.com/sonys-the-interview-can-now-be-seen-on-xbox-but-not-on-1674936343 http://kotaku.com/sonys-the-interview-can-now-be-seen-on-xbo...
  - cwyers 12y ago
    Huh, interesting... I've actually used the YouTube app to watch YouTube videos on the Xbox, but it never occurred to me to try it on Google Play movies. Thanks.

by cordite 12y ago

fidotron 12y ago

This is going to bite them. Android has deteriorated so much I'm working out how to move to Windows phone which really means leaving the Google ecosystem completely. And my career has been Android based for many years now.

cwyers 12y ago
I have the 2012 Motorola X, and a Nokia Lumia 635 I picked up for $50 at Radio Shack a few weeks ago. I'm betting that the Lumia sees the Windows 10 preview before the Motorola X sees Lollipop. It's so bizarre.

cwyers 12y ago

I'm not sure there IS anyone like Google. Apple is all walled garden, but they don't offer all that many services that make sense outside of their platform anyway -- they don't offer anything like Maps or YouTube. (Well, I guess iTunes, but... Apple gonna Apple.) Amazon is outright weird about supporting non-Fire Android, but they've finally got Amazon Video available on other Android platforms, and stuff like Kindle readers are available for any platform imaginable. Amazon Video is also on the Xbox, Playstation, Wii and Wii U, Roku and all kinds of smart TV/I guess smart BluRay devices. With the weird exception of Xbox Video, Microsoft is pretty much falling all over themselves to be on every platform -- Xbox Music, Xbox Smartglass, Office, Outlook.com, OneNote... they're all on iOS and Android. Google has a Google PLay app for Roku, at least. They offer some stuff on iOS, but not as much as they do on their own platform. But they're not on Xbox. They're not on Playstation. I can at least reason out why they don't want to be on Windows Phone or such, but... Google isn't competing with the Xbox and Playstation, and they're kidding themselves if they think they are. Why not a Playstation app for movies?

magicalist 12y ago
> But they're not on Xbox. They're not on Playstation There's a google-made youtube app on xboxes and playstations. I've never actually tried buying a play store video so not exactly sure if it works on the consoles themselves, but you can at least purchase them on a computer and then watch them on the playstation (Kotaku did this for The Interview, for instance[1]) [1] http://kotaku.com/sonys-the-interview-can-now-be-seen-on-xbox-but-not-on-1674936343 http://kotaku.com/sonys-the-interview-can-now-be-seen-on-xbo...
- cwyers 12y ago
  Huh, interesting... I've actually used the YouTube app to watch YouTube videos on the Xbox, but it never occurred to me to try it on Google Play movies. Thanks.