{"id":556,"date":"2013-08-16T21:48:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T21:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/?p=556"},"modified":"2017-02-24T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T17:31:54","slug":"the-other-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/2013\/08\/the-other-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This cracked me up :&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/8\/15\/4625502\/microsoft-responds-to-google-youtube-windows-phone-block\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/8\/15\/4625502\/microsoft-responds-to-google-youtube-windows-phone-block<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So Microsoft are whining that Google won&#8217;t tell them how their ad engine works, despite needing to know this so that they can write their own Youtube app (they won&#8217;t accept Google&#8217;s one, or perhaps Google refused to write one for such a niche platform). Google wrote the Android and iOS version, so this is perhaps the first time this has arisen (not sure if there&#8217;s a Blackberry Youtube app?).<\/p>\n<p>Suck it up Microsoft. Now you know how pretty much every other company in the world felt about you when they had to deal with the <strong>doc<\/strong>, or <strong>xls<\/strong> format. And that&#8217;s just one small example of the way Microsoft obfuscated their technology to make competition near-impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Is this&#8230; karma? I&#8217;d really like it to be karma, but bitter experience has taught me that you tend to have to wait a long, long time for that to work. Still, it&#8217;s been about 30 years since Microsoft dropped the doc abomination on us, so you never know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cracked me up :&nbsp;http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/8\/15\/4625502\/microsoft-responds-to-google-youtube-windows-phone-block So Microsoft are whining that Google won&#8217;t tell them how their ad engine works, despite needing to know this so that they can write their own Youtube app (they won&#8217;t accept Google&#8217;s one, or perhaps Google refused to write one for such a niche platform). Google wrote the Android and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[25,122,119,121,120],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-technical","tag-google","tag-karma","tag-microsoft","tag-standards","tag-youtube"],"mb":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}