So this is happening. Basically, Google does the same bullshit Microsoft did with IE6. But I thought the web was all about platform agnosticism! It’s not. It’s awful. HTML5? It’s worse than anything else. Have a look.
Anyway it’s business. Same cause (success) produces the same effect (nasty behavior). Don’t you ever come to me telling than one company is better than another when it comes to commercial and tactical practices. When they compete at the same level, they use the same arsenal. Common sense but I guess it isn’t that common these days…
In the end one comment says it all:
What does this mean for the users of Microsoft products? A lot of people still use Internet Explorer. Whatever Microsoft’s sins may be, how is it just to punish their users, who had nothing of substance to do with this? Do you turn potential customers away because you don’t like the car they drive, or the style of suit they wear?
What it did, coupled with the fact that MS services like Outlook.com and Skydrive are neat and support all platforms is that I stopped using almost all Google services. It drove me away. Google helped. That’s how stupid that practice is.
So listen up, service providers: the platform I want to use your services on is none of your business, you have to provide good experiences, regardless. And if you do nasty things or purposely don’t listen, it doesn’t make me want to use your stuff, stuff that alternatives can provide as well.
In other news Microsoft and Google are suing the government over transparency. They agree on something. Hurrah…