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Microshaft "retiring" Facebook, Twitter apps
- Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Makes perfect sense. If you own an online-enabled Xbox, you likely have a computer and/or a smart phone. Plus, the current Xbox OS is bloated as hell with apps. On the rare occasion I click on a video to watch, it always wants to install something new on mine (zune marketplace, crackle, dailymotion, gamespot, etc.). Waste of effort on their part.
Blotus wrote:Makes perfect sense. If you own an online-enabled Xbox, you likely have a computer and/or a smart phone. Plus, the current Xbox OS is bloated as hell with apps. On the rare occasion I click on a video to watch, it always wants to install something new on mine (zune marketplace, crackle, dailymotion, gamespot, etc.). Waste of effort on their part.Of course. There's no ulterior motive on Microshaft's part to eliminate competition from their own products available in the new dashboard update by eliminating universally-used social media apps. Just like Apple with their initial elimination of Google Maps from the iPhone 5....
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Remember when we were mad at Microsoft for bundling an Internet browser with an OS? Think of all the comparably horrible shit constantly done by everyone else in much more blatant ways.
In comparison I'm really not seeing how this is a big deal at all. Whether you're accessing Twitter or Facebook with their browser on your 360 as opposed to an app on your 360 it all seems the same to me.
In comparison I'm really not seeing how this is a big deal at all. Whether you're accessing Twitter or Facebook with their browser on your 360 as opposed to an app on your 360 it all seems the same to me.
Shrinweck wrote:Remember when we were mad at Microsoft for bundling an Internet browser with an OS? Think of all the comparably horrible shit constantly done by everyone else in much more blatant ways.Because it's limiting the accessibility of Twitter and Facebook, something Microshaft thought was important enough to include with its Gold accounts for the last what, 3 years? Why are they getting rid of it all of a sudden? Have you heard how Twitter and Facebook are just costing Microshaft money and are a detriment to the services they provide?
In comparison I'm really not seeing how this is a big deal at all. Whether you're accessing Twitter or Facebook with their browser on your 360 as opposed to an app on your 360 it all seems the same to me.
It's anti-competitive behaviour to eliminate a service because it competes with one of your own just because you happen to own the platform. That type of behaviour should never, ever be acceptable, regardless of what alternatives exist. If you deliver a good product, it should be able to stand on its own against all competitors
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They aren't eliminating a service as much as they're making you use a different route to use the service. You're right that this is the exact same thing as Apple freezing out Google Maps and the workaround is to use the browser, which is what I'm going to assume what everyone is doing. Companies trying to make money by encouraging you to use their service instead of someone else just doesn't seem like the biggest deal to me, especially if they aren't freezing out access to the other service completely. Just making someone jump through an additional hoop is a dick move, but developing applications for something that makes them no money is definitely counter productive. Microsoft pushing their browser to access these kinds of things just makes sense to me.
I doubt anybody uses the 360 to access FB or Twitter. However, what does MS has that is competing with FB/Twit?
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Robert: The subjunctive?
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Nothing AFAIK, they're in it to push the use of their browser on the console.
Gee, it only took them 15 years to do what Dreamcast could do? Or Wii? And these are the guys that invented IE?
Rosalina: But you didn't.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
SineSwiper wrote:Gee, it only took them 15 years to do what Dreamcast could do? Or Wii? And these are the guys that invented IE?Hey, it's not like you're paying for the online stuff on the system. Shut up and take it, bitch....
Oh, wait, this is the Xbox we're talking about, right? Sorry, my mistake :-)
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Zeus wrote:Well, yes, this is the Xbox we're talking about. And not some shitty platform that doesn't seem to understand how the online community model works.SineSwiper wrote:Gee, it only took them 15 years to do what Dreamcast could do? Or Wii? And these are the guys that invented IE?Hey, it's not like you're paying for the online stuff on the system. Shut up and take it, bitch....
Oh, wait, this is the Xbox we're talking about, right? Sorry, my mistake :-)
Rosalina: But you didn't.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
SineSwiper wrote:You get what you pay for, I guess ;-)Zeus wrote:Well, yes, this is the Xbox we're talking about. And not some shitty platform that doesn't seem to understand how the online community model works.SineSwiper wrote:Gee, it only took them 15 years to do what Dreamcast could do? Or Wii? And these are the guys that invented IE?Hey, it's not like you're paying for the online stuff on the system. Shut up and take it, bitch....
Oh, wait, this is the Xbox we're talking about, right? Sorry, my mistake :-)
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