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Seriously Google has turned into a completely fucked up corporation that doesn't give a poop about it's users and is only based on extreme greed with no moral standing.
Now we have all read/seen the privacy poop, increases advertising, them boosting their own services within their search engine over others (search engines should be objective) etc etc
And then of course we have them refusing to make applications for Windows Phone, including a YouTube app, Talk app, Maps app etc, while third party ones do exist (some more successful then others) they have been actively trying to block them. But the past 2 weeks they have been going even more on the offensive.
Google is stopping with active sync, this is used on Windows Mobile and Windows Phone devices, now they want to pretend that it's because active sync is not open source (and it's not), however it is 100% free and they will actually keep running it on their servers for existing users, however if you are new user on a Windows Phone device then you will have the chance until the end of the month to connect to their server with your phone, or you will not be able to use active sync anymore, which means that contacts and calenders will not be synchronized.
So since it will remain to work for current users (until of course they get a new phone Windows Phone), it has obviously nothing to do with not wanting to do any maintenance on it, but everything with wanting to keep people from switching to Windows Phone.
And then yesterday Google blocked Windows Phone from using Google Maps. Google claims: "The mobile web version of Google Maps is optimized for WebKit browsers such as Chrome and Safari. However, since Internet Explorer is not a WebKit browser, Windows Phone devices are not able to access Google Maps for the mobile web."
This is an obviously lie, Google Maps used to work, hell Google forgot to fix a redirect which still allowed to use through maps.google.co.uk, they have fixed that by now, but shows the obvious lie. Not to mention that IE on Windows Phone 8 is exactly the same as the Windows 8 version, it uses of course a different layout etc, but as far as a support goes, it's all the same. Maps still work on Windows 8. They obviously just blocked access from browsers that identify themselves as a mobile IE browser.
Google are actively refusing WP users to their services in the hope that WP will never grow any bigger. Just shows you what kind of fucked people they are, the whole openness etc is just a cover up for their lies to dominate everything.
Personally I'm completely done with Google. I will be taking my poop elsewhere.
Now we have all read/seen the privacy poop, increases advertising, them boosting their own services within their search engine over others (search engines should be objective) etc etc
And then of course we have them refusing to make applications for Windows Phone, including a YouTube app, Talk app, Maps app etc, while third party ones do exist (some more successful then others) they have been actively trying to block them. But the past 2 weeks they have been going even more on the offensive.
Google is stopping with active sync, this is used on Windows Mobile and Windows Phone devices, now they want to pretend that it's because active sync is not open source (and it's not), however it is 100% free and they will actually keep running it on their servers for existing users, however if you are new user on a Windows Phone device then you will have the chance until the end of the month to connect to their server with your phone, or you will not be able to use active sync anymore, which means that contacts and calenders will not be synchronized.
So since it will remain to work for current users (until of course they get a new phone Windows Phone), it has obviously nothing to do with not wanting to do any maintenance on it, but everything with wanting to keep people from switching to Windows Phone.
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And then yesterday Google blocked Windows Phone from using Google Maps. Google claims: "The mobile web version of Google Maps is optimized for WebKit browsers such as Chrome and Safari. However, since Internet Explorer is not a WebKit browser, Windows Phone devices are not able to access Google Maps for the mobile web."
This is an obviously lie, Google Maps used to work, hell Google forgot to fix a redirect which still allowed to use through maps.google.co.uk, they have fixed that by now, but shows the obvious lie. Not to mention that IE on Windows Phone 8 is exactly the same as the Windows 8 version, it uses of course a different layout etc, but as far as a support goes, it's all the same. Maps still work on Windows 8. They obviously just blocked access from browsers that identify themselves as a mobile IE browser.
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Google are actively refusing WP users to their services in the hope that WP will never grow any bigger. Just shows you what kind of fucked people they are, the whole openness etc is just a cover up for their lies to dominate everything.
Personally I'm completely done with Google. I will be taking my poop elsewhere.