Microsoft says Google trying to undermine Windows Phone

[parnote]

As if it's Google's fault for Windows Phone's shortcomings ... if you can't compete legitimately, sue.

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Blocked services lead to 'degraded experience'

By Neil McAllister in San Francisco

Posted in Operating Systems, 3rd January 2013 01:04 GMT

Microsoft has admitted that Windows Phone 8 doesn't work as well with some of the internet's most popular properties as do other smartphone platforms, but it has pinned the blame on a surprising culprit: apparently, it's all Google's fault.

In a blog post on Wednesday, Microsoft VP and deputy general counsel Dave Heiner said the software giant has spent two years trying to get a first-class YouTube app running on Windows Phone, but to no avail, thanks to the Chocolate Factory's stonewalling.

"YouTube apps on the Android and Apple platforms were two of the most downloaded mobile applications in 2012, according to recent news reports," Heiner wrote. "Yet Google still refuses to allow Windows Phone users to have the same access to YouTube that Android and Apple customers enjoy."

According to Heiner, Google has denied Microsoft's YouTube app access to metadata that would allow it to deliver all of YouTube's functionality, including such features as user ratings and the ability to search for videos by categories.

Because of this limitation, he says, Microsoft has been forced to deliver an app that's really nothing more than a repackaged version of the YouTube website running in a browser – unlike the apps for other platforms, which offer richer experiences.

Although YouTube execs have seemed amenable to helping Redmond get its YouTube app up to par with the others, Heiner says those efforts have been blocked from higher up the Chocolate Factory's food chain.

"Just last month we learned from YouTube that senior executives at Google told them not to enable a first-class YouTube experience on Windows Phones," he wrote.

Read the full article here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/03/microsoft_claims_google_undermining_winphone/

[YouCanToo]

Good one Redmond, blame Google for your lack luster performance..........  You buy pooh and you get pooh!

CalDAV, CardDAV, and IMAP. But Microsoft argued that these were "older protocols," and that using them would force Windows Phone owners to "degrade their mobile email experience."

Translated to mean, but those are open standards, how can we screw our users, using a open standard.

Outlook.com service is the superior free email service. ROTFLMAO

Darn MS you should be really proud of Google, they have learned well from you!

Remember the old saying....... You made your own bed, so now lay in it?  So how is that feeling to you now

[Just17]

I would not be surprised to learn there is a lot of truth in those claims.

I do not trust Google ........  'do no evil' ....  yeah! right!

[bicol_willem]

Tasty cookie from their own dough (which they forget to patent) 

[GermanTux]

Tasty cookie from their own dough (which they forget to patent) 

Damn - I absolutely love that metaphor.  What goes around comes around 

[Old-Polack]

Tasty cookie from their own dough (which they forget to patent) 

Damn - I absolutely love that metaphor.  What goes around comes around 

+1

Gnaw on that cookie M$.

[ThirdOfSix]

Seems like a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

It is kind of funny in a perverse sort of way.

[Just17]

Seems like a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

It is kind of funny in a perverse sort of way.

+1

[µT6]

i read that yesterday on tomshardware amd some of the replies were incredibly funny

one guy said that the 3 users of windows phone 8 in us and the 2 in europe must be mad with this  

microsoft looks cute whining about this things i think, like they need help with this phone/thing/crap they have

almost makes me want to have a nokia lumia, and apply warranty for this kind of crap they offer  

if google should block someone that would be iphone and they have a solution for lack of flash for a long time now

microsoft is basically lost now

[Meemaw]

Yeah, this is everyone else's fault too....

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/steve-ballmer-s-nightmare-is-coming-true-181558610.html