So instead of google writing a youtube app for win phone, MS has to write one.
Same for other sites like eating well.
You know what's even sadder? The "apps" are just links to the mobile versions of their websites.
Weird that people think a company is evil or ruthless because they won't voluntarily support a competitor's ecosystem.
Of course, the fact that MS is threatning to sue companies that build Android phones for secret patent infringements would have nothing to do with Google not being supportive.Google is absolutely no different than any company out there. They are just as "evil" and ruthless. If you believe otherwise you are a moron.
Don't expect to see official Google apps on WP anytime soon. They will only do so when WP reaches a critical mass of users like iOS has. They have no intention of seeing WP succeeding and dethroning Android.
Of course, the fact that MS is threatning to sue companies that build Android phones for secret patent infringements would have nothing to do with Google not being supportive.
Of course, the fact that MS is threatning to sue companies that build Android phones for secret patent infringements would have nothing to do with Google not being supportive.
MS has gone out of its way to keep Android from succeeding. Do you see an Android version of MS Office? MS throughout its history has gone out of its way to crush competition. They were once the poster child for anti-competitive practices. I'm not the least bit sympathetic to MS.
No, Google is not a knight in shining armor. But MS is very much the evil dragon.
Ah, yes. Mobile office, I stand corrected. However, I must mention in my own defense that this is more a path towards making Office a subscription based app that requires you to keep buying the same product each year rather than buying just once. MS is practical if nothing else. But I don't think this weakens my original argument. MS has a long history of using whatever means to crush competition.Yes, yes I do see Office for Android. http://phandroid.com/2013/07/31/microsoft-office-for-androi/
Just a heads up, the mods might consider this a personal attack and take action against you. They've been cracking down on that recently.But please, continue your crusade against the evil MS, this is how rational people see you:
Yes, yes I do see Office for Android. http://phandroid.com/2013/07/31/microsoft-office-for-androi/
Ah, yes. Mobile office, I stand corrected. However, I must mention in my own defense that this is more a path towards making Office a subscription based app that requires you to keep buying the same product each year rather than buying just once. MS is practical if nothing else. But I don't think this weakens my original argument. MS has a long history of using whatever means to crush competition.
Just a heads up, the mods might consider this a personal attack and take action against you. They've been cracking down on that recently.
But in a way it is personal for me. I worked for a city government that use to use Word Perfect Suite but was forced to switch by MS. They threatened to sue us for license violation. We were in the right, our lawyers agreed we were in the right and would win the case, but the cost of defending ourselves was more than the cost of switching to MS Office. So, money talked and we migrated to MS Office.
Weird that people think a company is evil or ruthless because they won't voluntarily support a competitor's ecosystem.
The biggest thing for me is that Google constantly supports this notion of "Oh, we're open and we support all platforms and we just love everybody and want our stuff everywhere and we really care about the end users and the experiences that they have, blah blah blah".
Look, I can understand having a threshold for supporting a platform. But it's fucking Microsoft. It's fucking Windows Phone. Sure, they don't have 10% of the overall market yet. But it's growing every year and (newsflash) it's not going away.
Even the small percentages of users Windows Phone has still counts for millions (and millions!) of Windows Phone users. With Microsoft offering to basically pay for the development of the apps, Google is sending a clear message that millions of users aren't "important enough" or "valuable enough" to put in even a token effort to produce some half-assed application to support their users (of which there are plenty) that might choose Windows Phone.
It just makes me so irritated. It's like those stupid Apple fans back in the mid 90's to mid 00's always thinking that Apple was somehow "sticking it to the man". Listen, if you don't want to make your services available on WP, just say you don't and end the speculation on when it might happen or people theorizing about the imaginary number you don't actually have of "enough market penetration" before you decide to support WP.
The biggest thing for me is that Google constantly supports this notion of "Oh, we're open and we support all platforms and we just love everybody and want our stuff everywhere and we really care about the end users and the experiences that they have, blah blah blah".
That's the whole point, really. A lot of people, myself included, believe that Google's complete lack of support for Windows Phone is to limit the choices users have and force them in to the Android ecosystem rather than the WP ecosystem. I don't believe their stance will ever change, but we'll have to wait a few years for WP market penetration to top iOS.So its Microsoft, so what? They have ah heck all market share its really not worth anyones effort in supporting the platform at the moment. Now that may change and I would expect that google's attitude would change as well.
Really if you want great Google support (or any third party support really) why would you buy a phone with a tiny market share and no history of support from the company whose services that you want?
And no it's not. It's like Apple coming out and saying "Yeah, we don't really want to support Android at this time but we're constantly looking at the situation and, if it changes, we'll see about making iCloud available on Android."Its like me buying an Android phone and then complaining that iCloud backup doesn't work on it and I cant get to the Apple app store on it.
Their is a difference between not supporting a competitor and actively trying to suppress a competitor. Google is not supporting WP. Apple is trying to suppress Android with its constant lawsuits. The same with MS and how they are extorting a licensing fee based on "secret" patent violations. What really makes this annoying is how much Apple borrowed other peoples ideas in the past, but as soon as they had original ideas they became all righteous.At this point, you simply KNOW Apple isn't going to support shit on Android. Or WP. You know. With Google's current stance (which I don't buy but several others do) is that they "might" support WP "eventually".