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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by danieldk on Sunday March 04, 2018 @02:28AM (#16513668)
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.

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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by thaumasiotes on Sunday March 04, 2018 @03:57AM (#16513856)
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.
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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by arcticfox on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:08AM (#16514571)
Google would just change the user-agent they were blocking to whatever Microsoft changed it to. It was intentional.
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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by thaumasiotes on Sunday March 04, 2018 @03:20PM (#16516456)
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.
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