Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices
by danieldk on Sunday March 04, 2018 @02:28AM
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Google blocked the web version of Google Maps in Internet Explorer for Windows Phone:
https://mashable.com/2013/01/05/google-maps-windows-phone/#g...
Maps worked fine with exactly the same Trident engine on the desktop. Moreover, if you change the user agent string, maps also worked fine with Windows Phone.
Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices
by thaumasiotes on Sunday March 04, 2018 @03:57AM
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That seems like a pretty simple fix for Microsoft to make on behalf of every Windows Phone user... Google can't compel MS to identify its phones for Google's benefit.
Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices
by arcticfox on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:08AM
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Google would just change the user-agent they were blocking to whatever Microsoft changed it to. It was intentional.
Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices
by thaumasiotes on Sunday March 04, 2018 @03:20PM
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Again, there's no rule that says devices must have unique user-agents. Once you've established that Google wants to block Windows Phone from using maps, you can send the user-agent string of something they don't want to block.
Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices
by zeusk on Saturday March 03, 2018 @11:11PM
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Hahaha
https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/15/4624706/google-blocks-win...
https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/15/4625502/microsoft-respond...
Google pulls this same bs with consoles as well, both PS4 and Xbox One (S/X) have a shitty HTML5 app that just doesn't fit well with rest of the system.
Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices
by ChrisAntaki on Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:59AM
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Really? I've used the ps4 YouTube app a bunch to watch videos, and movies purchased from the play store. My phone can cast to it as well. Seems to work as well as the Netflix app. I've had more issues with the ps4 store app honestly.
Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices
by snuxoll on Sunday March 04, 2018 @02:59AM
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So does Apple TV now after the most recent update, and it’s absoultely terrible.
Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices
by snuxoll on Saturday March 03, 2018 @11:00PM
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Nobody stripped ads offf YouTube videos - Google doesn’t provide an API you can use to display them in the first place and they had no desire to make a native application themselves to remove the necessity.
The background audio stuff, sure - that happened.
[citation needed]
The only history i'm aware of with google blocking app development on windows phone is when they sent C&Ds to people developing apps that stripped all the ads off youtube and played background audio. They also consistently take down and block android apps that violate the TOS in this way, and i don't see anybody saying that google is trying to kill android.