Google playing hardball with Microsoft over Windows Phone has really turned me off. While I was once a loyal Google user (Gmail, Maps, Drive, Search, etc.), I decided that Android was garbage and I wanted to switch over to Windows Phone (a great decision). If Google had fully supported Windows Phone I may have simply switched operating systems but continued using Google services. But they don't, and for some people this makes them choose to stay on Android because they notice that Google doesn't support Windows Phone. I went the other route: if they didn't want to make there applications available to me, I'd switch services (because, for me, the operating system is more important than the applications, assuming there are adequate substitutes). Thus, now I use Outlook, HERE, SkyDrive, Bing, etc. and I think all of them are better than Google's offerings so I'm quite happy that I am nowt Google-free.
There is one exception: YouTube. While I don't personally upload any videos or even ever go to YouTube to search for videos, I cannot avoid encountering YouTube videos. Friends post links on Facebook, if I search Bing for videos 95% of them are YouTube links, even companies that I thought wouldn't want to use YouTube (Nokia, and even Microsoft itself) publish their videos on YouTube. It's a downright monopoly. I have two questions:
1) is Vimeo (or another streaming service) a good YouTube replacement (i.e., is there a lot of content, is the quality of streaming the same, is the Windows Phone app good?), and
2) Why do companies that compete with Google (like Nokia and Microsoft) solely post their videos on YouTube? Why don't they try to use a competing service (like Vimeo)? I'm not talking about delisting all of their videos from YouTube (I realize YouTube is so huge that you need to list your videos there for people to see them). I mean more so why, outside of YouTube, they don't post videos on a different site. For instance, if Microsoft or Nokia posts an official video link on Twitter, it always goes to a YouTube video. Why not link the video somewhere else?
There is one exception: YouTube. While I don't personally upload any videos or even ever go to YouTube to search for videos, I cannot avoid encountering YouTube videos. Friends post links on Facebook, if I search Bing for videos 95% of them are YouTube links, even companies that I thought wouldn't want to use YouTube (Nokia, and even Microsoft itself) publish their videos on YouTube. It's a downright monopoly. I have two questions:
1) is Vimeo (or another streaming service) a good YouTube replacement (i.e., is there a lot of content, is the quality of streaming the same, is the Windows Phone app good?), and
2) Why do companies that compete with Google (like Nokia and Microsoft) solely post their videos on YouTube? Why don't they try to use a competing service (like Vimeo)? I'm not talking about delisting all of their videos from YouTube (I realize YouTube is so huge that you need to list your videos there for people to see them). I mean more so why, outside of YouTube, they don't post videos on a different site. For instance, if Microsoft or Nokia posts an official video link on Twitter, it always goes to a YouTube video. Why not link the video somewhere else?