You don't think it's relevant? Microsoft is paying millions to run anti-Google attack ads and smear campaigns everywhere, it's not unthinkable that they would hire astroturf to roam sites like HN, so for the sake of the health of this community they ought to be pointed out.
As for YouTube it is and always have been available on the web for windows phone.
Microsoft in clear violation of Google's TOS used undocumented APIs and stripped ads from YouTube and now they have the audacity to say that they would have complied by the TOS if it suited them better.
Please take your anti-Google (probably Microsoft sponsored astroturf) elsewhere:
Same as every other “cloud provider”, yet somehow Google is the one subjected to these overwritten accounts and the almost mandatory pseudo law/policy musings that follow.
You might want to take a look at some policies from others in the industry to get a more accurate picture of this landscape.
These policies are constructed as such to mitigate litigation, which the author concedes. Regardless I'm glad this instance had a happy ending.
It does not do that, I just double checked, even when the focus is on the "Send" button a dialog box pops with "Send (Ctrl-Enter)" and no sending happens. Maybe what you encountered was the work of a browser extension or a labs feature left enabled, or most likely you just tapped return at the wrong moment.
Why is this sort of post even on HN, not to mention the front page? and why is this thread dominated by idiotic language about "evil" and "kings" and incoherent babbling about politics and democratic representation?! and suddenly everyone is a law scholar.
I blame Matt Cutts' occasional appearances for the subsequent flocking of SEO sorts here. This post doesn't belong on HN, certainly not on the front page.
Yeah, no shit! I’m not quite sure what is the point of that article, because it’s fairly obvious that the main reason for which Plus was conceived is to be the uniform identity provider for commenting, reviewing, and overall communicating throughout Google’s services.
At the time Google lacked the pictured user profiles that every other app seemed to have and so Google Plus was born.
I think that the discrete social network is secondary and the competition with Facebook is constantly being overplayed by the media as the reason for this social play.
The author just seems oddly surprised that G+ is doing what it’s supposed to do.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-interface-for-g...