Re:As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its D...
by toast0 on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @12:57AM
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> Google sabotaged that by refusing to support YouTube on windows mobile and actively blocking Microsoft’s native app.
Microsoft sabotaged it first by not letting Google (and others) leverage the native apps they built for WM 6.5 on WP7. Having a terrible browser and not letting established browsers into the store (Mozilla was interested in porting to WP, but Microsoft rebuffed them) was sabotage too.
But that's in the past anyway. Manufacturers could have licensed WP/WM, and several did, but it's not available anymore.
Microsoft sabotaged it first by not letting Google (and others) leverage the native apps they built for WM 6.5 on WP7. Having a terrible browser and not letting established browsers into the store (Mozilla was interested in porting to WP, but Microsoft rebuffed them) was sabotage too.
But that's in the past anyway. Manufacturers could have licensed WP/WM, and several did, but it's not available anymore.