Google drops EAS... sort of.
Hopefully this will be a quick post. I updated my last post with the news that Google was dropping support for EAS, basically in a way which boils down to Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 get kicked off the boat but everyone still gets to use it.
I called Google evil as a result of this move, and I think that to be fair I need to explain this. Their prior move regarding halting development on those platforms is a passive attack. It does nothing to affect the current state of either eco-system. But the lack of support for Microsoft's platform Google clearly hopes will draw customers away from their products.
This EAS thing is quite a different animal. Not only does affect software already in the market. But to pull this off would have actually required Google to ACTIVELY put more work into this just to kick these platforms out.
To explain, EAS is simply a protocol. Which you can think of as a language which in this case allows two endpoints (a client and a server) to talk to each other to transmit information (calendar and contacts in this case, though not important to the argument). But Google isn't actually dropping support for EAS. They are still offering it to their paying customers and other legacy clients. This means Google's servers will actually continue to have no problem at all actually dealing with data using the EAS protocol. What they have actually done is gone out of their way to add a layer which stops communication from all but a select group of clients from talking to their servers using EAS.
And they call this "Winter Cleaning". Since when was it considered cleaning when all you have actually done is add something more complex to what was already there? Are you shitting me? The hubris at Google these days is insurmountable. I know it would mean an army of jobs lost, but Google needs to be dealt a death blow. This is insane, childish and stupid.
Much like the move with stopping development for Win8 and WP8 this is thinly veiled school ground insults. What Google is doing is actually hurting their own users. But of course they are hoping the average person will blame Microsoft. And frankly, it will probably succeed. I would be unsurprised to find Google pulls the 1 Win8 app they already made from the store and them remain mute when people blame Microsoft for the lack of support for Google services. People blame Microsoft for the lack of certain apps on their platforms when it is the devs of those products which are the ones not supplying you with the software.
I called Google evil as a result of this move, and I think that to be fair I need to explain this. Their prior move regarding halting development on those platforms is a passive attack. It does nothing to affect the current state of either eco-system. But the lack of support for Microsoft's platform Google clearly hopes will draw customers away from their products.
This EAS thing is quite a different animal. Not only does affect software already in the market. But to pull this off would have actually required Google to ACTIVELY put more work into this just to kick these platforms out.
To explain, EAS is simply a protocol. Which you can think of as a language which in this case allows two endpoints (a client and a server) to talk to each other to transmit information (calendar and contacts in this case, though not important to the argument). But Google isn't actually dropping support for EAS. They are still offering it to their paying customers and other legacy clients. This means Google's servers will actually continue to have no problem at all actually dealing with data using the EAS protocol. What they have actually done is gone out of their way to add a layer which stops communication from all but a select group of clients from talking to their servers using EAS.
And they call this "Winter Cleaning". Since when was it considered cleaning when all you have actually done is add something more complex to what was already there? Are you shitting me? The hubris at Google these days is insurmountable. I know it would mean an army of jobs lost, but Google needs to be dealt a death blow. This is insane, childish and stupid.
Much like the move with stopping development for Win8 and WP8 this is thinly veiled school ground insults. What Google is doing is actually hurting their own users. But of course they are hoping the average person will blame Microsoft. And frankly, it will probably succeed. I would be unsurprised to find Google pulls the 1 Win8 app they already made from the store and them remain mute when people blame Microsoft for the lack of support for Google services. People blame Microsoft for the lack of certain apps on their platforms when it is the devs of those products which are the ones not supplying you with the software.
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