[Multicomp]

This.

Remember that article about how they acted like a toddler to Microsoft when the latter wanted to have a YouTube app?[1] All to keep WP from being viable enough to have a significant market share of users, especially users that didn't know or care enough to swap out bing search for Google.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/14/15970082/google-killed-wi...

[s73v3r_]

Google not allowing WP to have a YouTube app that purposely stripped out the ads and ignored various other aspects of the ToS is nowhere near the reason why WP wasn't viable.

[erk__]

They made an app but got told the only thing they could have was more or less a webview iirc

[FussyZeus]

Careful now, can't be criticizing Google too much on HN, they send the wolves for you.

I'd love to know how many of the people rallying around Google's defenses now were anti-Microsoft back in the day for doing what is basically the same damn thing they were doing with Internet Explorer, only IMHO worse because Google didn't even develop Android, they just picked it up and filled it to the brim with their software.

[kungtotte]

I don't know which HN you've been reading, but there's a fairly strong anti-Google sentiment around here...

[fartcannon]

Due to their past and current behavior, I'm still anti-Microsoft. And I'm definitely anti-Google. Anti Apple, and Amazon, too.

Generally, I'm anti-lock down and anti-spying. I bet a lot of those old anti-MS people feel like I do.

[bitmapbrother]

>Google didn't even develop Android, they just picked it up and filled it to the brim with their software.

What Google initially bought was no where near a commercially viable product and any remnants of that legacy code probably don't even even exist in the Android code base of today.

>only IMHO worse because Google didn't even develop Android

Sort of like how Microsoft bought MS-DOS, the foundation for Windows 1.0, from Seattle Computer Products. Except for the part where Microsoft then tried to screw them over by suing them and ultimately settling out of court.

[shemnon42]

> Careful now, can't be criticizing Google too much on HN, they send the wolves for you.

These are kale fed wolves. You'll be fine.

[bitmapbrother]

You neglected to mention that Microsoft employees reverse engineered the YouTube API's and then, for good measure, prevented ads from appearing in the app. They also had no permission to use someone else's IP.

>All to keep WP from being viable enough to have a significant market share

This is a company that not only had to pay developers to write apps for their platform, but would also offer to write it for them. They were never going to have a significant market share because of their incompetence.