Google's war on Microsoft only results in consumer casualties

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VGKing said:

man-bear-pig said:
Well, it's kind of understandable from a business perspective why google would do this. If windows devices become huge then a side effect of that will be increased bing marketshare. Remember, google is an advertising company and they need their browser to be popular as its where 95% of their income comes from.

Having said that, it's still a shoddy business practice and I hope it backfires on them.

That's just not true.
Google search is supported by the biggest mobile browser out there....iOS. You can search google right from Safari without even going to Google.com

Anyway I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't created their own "Youtube" or "maps" yet. They got the money and they are supposedly the best software company out there.....now they're trying to get into hardware and I don't think that's working out too well for them...

Bing maps already exists on windows phone works wonderfully. Also Microsoft has a Youtube app ready for Windows Phone but Google is not giving them access to Youtube API's which their android devices get.

Luckily there is Metrotube which is an excellent 4rd party Youtube app for Windows Phone (as good as anything on Android or iOS). The only bad thing about it is that they have to patch the app every 2 weeks because Google keeps changing the video codec security on Youtube in order to screw up the 3rd party apps such as this.