The limits of Google’s openness

Re:The limits of Google’s openness by Sven7 on Thursday August 15, 2013 @06:58PM (#6221126)

Great point. Amazon should do the same thing. Since they host all these sites on their cloud. The only browser that should be allowed to access it should be Amazon's.

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Re:The limits of Google’s openness by jorgecastillo on Thursday August 15, 2013 @07:16PM (#6221197)

This is completely different, YouTube is a free service, Google has no obligations to third parties. AFAIK Amazon Web Services are not free, if Amazon imposed this sort of restrictions on their customers, I am sure they would show Amazon the door.

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Re:The limits of Google’s openness by Sven7 on Friday August 16, 2013 @08:03AM (#6223431)

You are right. Google owns all that content. Kim Dotcom should learn from the masters.

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Re:The limits of Google’s openness by moutarde on Thursday August 15, 2013 @08:48PM (#6221553)

Amazon is actually relevant here, because their Kindle Fire browser is partly cloud based. Microsoft may say that HTML5 on the Win Phone isn't feasible, but they own a giant cloud based server farm (Azure) just like Amazon. So if Amazon can make a browser that splits tasks between the cloud and the physical device why can't Microsoft handle HTML5 this way?

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Re:The limits of Google’s openness by beagle3 on Thursday August 15, 2013 @08:01PM (#6221387)

.... and be in breach of their own contract with those sites, who pay amazon for the privilege - for which they would lose in court if sued.

If microsoft had a signed contract with google, (which would probably entail payment to google) they would have a case. As it stands, they don't.

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Re:The limits of Google’s openness by Sven7 on Friday August 16, 2013 @08:07AM (#6223455)

They are asking Google for open access to content Google doesn't own just as Google is telling Facebook the same thing.

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