Mungkin Google balas dendam karena beberapa produsen HH Android harus bayar Royalti ke Microsoft :)))) lol
sol On Friday, August 16, 2013 12:05:14 PM UTC+7, imam wiratmadja wrote: > > > http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/08/15/the-limits-of-google-s-openness.aspx > > > The limits of Google’s openness > Rate This > 15 Aug 2013 12:26 PM > > - > 0<http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/08/15/the-limits-of-google-s-openness.aspx#comments> > > > Posted by David Howard > Corporate Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Litigation & Antitrust, > Microsoft > > You may be wondering what happened to the YouTube app for Windows Phone. > Last May, after we launched a much improved app on our platform, Google > objected on a number of grounds. We took our app down and agreed to work > with Google to solve their issues. This week, after we addressed each of > Google’s points, we re-launched the app, only to have Google technically > block it. > > We know that this has been frustrating, to say the least, for our > customers. We have always had one goal: to provide our users a YouTube > experience on Windows Phone that’s on par with the YouTube experience > available to Android and iPhone users. Google’s objections to our app are > not only inconsistent with Google’s own commitment of openness, but also > involve requirements for a Windows Phone app that it doesn’t impose on its > own platform or Apple’s (both of which use Google as the default search > engine, of course). > > When we first built a YouTube app for Windows Phone, we did so with the > understanding that Google claimed > to<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html>grow its > business based on open access to its platforms and content, a > point it > reiterated<https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwxyRPFduTN2emMxQ0tkTEZzajQ/edit?pli=1>last > year. As antitrust enforcers have launched investigations against > Google – some of which are still ongoing – the company has reiterated its > commitment to openness and its ability to stick to its openness commitments > voluntarily. > > With this backdrop, we temporarily took down our full-featured app when > Google objected to it last May, and have worked hard to accommodate > Google’s requests. We enabled Google’s advertisements, disabled video > downloads and eliminated the ability for users to view reserved videos. We > did this all at no cost to Google, which one would think would want a > YouTube app on Windows Phone that would only serve to bring Google new > users and additional revenue. > > There was one sticking point in the collaboration. Google asked us to > transition our app to a new coding language – HTML5. This was an odd > request since neither YouTube’s iPhone app nor its Android app are built on > HTML5. Nevertheless, we dedicated significant engineering resources to > examine the possibility. At the end of the day, experts from both companies > recognized that building a YouTube app based on HTML5 would be technically > difficult and time consuming, which is why we assume YouTube has not yet > made the conversion for its iPhone and Android apps. > > For this reason, we made a decision this week to publish our non-HTML5 app > while committing to work with Google long-term on an app based on HTML5. We > believe this approach delivers our customers a short term experience on par > with the other platforms while putting us in the same position as Android > and iOS in enabling an eventual transition to new technology. Google, > however, has decided to block our mutual customers from accessing our new > app. > > It seems to us that Google’s reasons for blocking our app are manufactured > so that we can’t give our users the same experience Android and iPhone > users are getting. The roadblocks Google has set up are impossible to > overcome, and they know it. > > Google claims that one problem with our new app is that it doesn’t always > serve ads based on conditions imposed by content creators. Our app serves > Google’s advertisements using all the metadata available to us. We’ve asked > Google to provide whatever information iPhone and Android get so that we > can mirror the way ads are served on these platforms more precisely. So far > at least, Google has refused to give this information to us. We are quite > confident that we can solve this issue if Google cooperates, but fixing > Google’s concern here is entirely within Google’s control. If Google stops > blocking our app, we are happy to work with them on this, entirely at > Microsoft’s expense. > > Google also says that we are not complying with its “terms and > conditions.” What Google really means is that our app is not based on > HTML5. The problem with this argument, of course, is that Google is not > complying with this condition for Android and iPhone. Again, we’re happy to > collaborate with Google on an HTML5 app, but we shouldn’t be required to do > something that apparently neither iPhone nor Android has successfully > figured out how to do. > > Google raises concerns about our branding too. The funny thing about this > point is that we’ve been using the same branding continuously since 2010 > for an inferior YouTube app. Now that we have an app that gives users a > fuller YouTube experience, Google objects to the branding (even though > we’ve taken additional steps to clarify that we are the author of the app). > Go figure. > > Finally, Google cites a degraded experience. Since 2010, Google permitted > a Windows Phone app that was far below the iPhone and Android app > experiences. Reviews of our new app are unanimous that the experience is > much improved, and we’re committed to making adjustments to improve it > further. If Google were truly concerned about a degraded experience, it > would allow our users access to the new YouTube app they love. > > We think it’s clear that Google just doesn’t want Windows Phone users to > have the same experience as Android and Apple users, and that their > objections are nothing other than excuses. Nonetheless, we are committed to > giving our users the experience they deserve, and are happy to work with > Google to solve any legitimate concerns they may have. In the meantime, we > once again request that Google stop blocking our YouTube app. > > -- ========== INDOSAT SUPER 3G plus http://www.indosat.com/Personal/Internet/INDOSAT_SUPER_3G_plus --------------------- ID-Android on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u81L8Qpy5A -------------------- Web Hosting, Zimbra Mail Server, VPS gratis Raspberry Pi : http://www.hostune.com -------------------- Aturan Umum ID-Android: http://goo.gl/MpVq8 Join Forum ID-ANDROID: http://forum.android.or.id ========== --- Anda menerima pesan ini karena Anda berlangganan grup "[id-android] Indonesian Android Community " dari Grup Google. Untuk berhenti berlangganan dan berhenti menerima email dari grup ini, kirim email ke id-android+berhenti [email protected] .
