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Google Blocks YouTube App On Windows Phone (Again)
dhavleak writes "From Gizmodo: Earlier today, the Microsoft-built YouTube app for Windows Phone was unceremoniously disabled by Google. These kind of little inter-corporate kerfuffles happen from time to time, and usually resolve themselves without screwing too many users. But boy, Microsoft didn't take it quietly."
"Google claims that one problem with our new app is that it doesn’t always serve ads based on conditions imposed by content creators."
Nothing more needed to be said. The rest of the article is manipulation.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
Microsoft's CEO has sworn to "fucking kill Google", saying "I've done it before and I can do it again." He's spending several billion dollars a year on that effort, historically more than $16 Billion if you include aQuantive. He's spending several billion dollars a year on the Google-bashing campaign. It's not like Microsoft is some random developer here innocently trying to get their app to work.
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ActiveSync protocol is owned by Microsoft. They demand patent licensing for it. Once upon a time they thought their patent portfolio was proof against competitors in push email and calendars, especially in mobile. They thought this was their mobile "lock" that ensured mobile success and would prevent innovation to supplant them.
It turns out ActiveSync isn't really required to do push email and calendars. It can be done another way. So instead of demanding license fees for their patents Microsoft is put in the awkward position of begging that Android implement their proprietary protocols. And Andoid would, but they want a ridiculous fee for the patent license, so: fuck off.
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Somewhere between you and the mailserver is a patent holder, and a desire to exploit their intellectual property.
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What about the fast version of the Safari HTML/Javascript engine? All 3rd party apps are limited to using the crippled one. When multitasking first appeared it was limited to Apple apps only. It was a while before the API was available to 3rd party apps.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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>Linux has less than 1% of desktop.
Citation needed. And any stats that are based on PC sales are bullshit since almost all Linux installs are done on hardware that was purchased with Windows pre-installed.