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You CLEARLY haven’t been paying attention. Microsoft has had this app ready and waiting for Google to provide the proper APIs (required to play videos with ads) and Google refuses. They gave API access to Apple.

8 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads

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Well, they arguably have a monopoly on web video, so they are likely using that monopoly power illegally by picking and choosing who gets proper API access. Microsoft knows these laws all too well and I’m sure that Google is due for a lesson.

8 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads

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It kinda IS the case.

8 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads

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Do you even KNOW what you’re talking about?

• Google won’t make a WP app = they are taking money from the content partners
• Google won’t provide proper APIs to allow ads to be played = they are taking money from the content partners
• Google says that Windows Phone “isn’t where the users” are = their indifference and childlike attitude is preventing their content partners from getting views

8 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads

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According to Google, “Windows Phone isn’t where the users are”, so the loss of revenue should be miniscule. Besides, it is Google that refuses to build an app, so isn’t Google Scroogling their content partners? Isn’t Google the one holding back the proper APIs needed to play the videos with the ads? I think your arrow is aimed at the wrong target.

8 days ago on Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads

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You could also use OneNote on just about every platform. Microsoft gives most of our good stuff away for free to competing platforms.

10 days ago on Nokia sidesteps Instagram absence with Hipstamatic app and Smart Camera features (hands-on)

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I use Word all the time. I keep an invoice template and send them as soon as I’m done with a job/gig.

Also, I see your argument about “viewing” and can say the same thing about Instagram; I have been able to view Instagram for a long time with Windows Phone. I don’t, but I’ve had the capability. Even now, I could post there, but I choose not to.

Everyone wants to chide Microsoft for not having Instagram when Microsoft would use the app it created with its OWN resources and InstaGrime still says no. This isn’t a ‘business’ decision because of market share. It’s also not very “social” if you’re targeting groups of people for exclusion.

10 days ago on Nokia sidesteps Instagram absence with Hipstamatic app and Smart Camera features (hands-on)

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As I don’t have access to the marketing plans of Microsoft, can you please tell me the demographics of the “group of people that Microsoft is targeting with Windows Phone” and what the intersection is with the Instagram user base?

10 days ago on Nokia sidesteps Instagram absence with Hipstamatic app and Smart Camera features (hands-on)