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If you’ve been holding out for a Gmail or Drive app on Windows Phone 8 or full Windows 8, you’re all outta luck. Google has announced that it has no plans to roll out Windows 8 software for the major Google apps.
Speaking to V3, Clay Bavor, product management director of Google Apps, explained:
“We have no plans to build out Windows apps. We are very careful about where we invest and will go where the users are but they are not on Windows Phone or Windows 8. If that changes, we would invest there, of course.”
Instead, Google plans to concentrate its efforts on iOS and Android apps:
“In 2012 we’ve laid some of the ground work and really improved the experience of our core apps on mobile devices, such as adding native editing of spreadsheets for both iOS and Android apps.”
Like Google Maps, which is now back on iOS. So, if you have an intimate love affair with the big G, it looks like Windows Phone 8 still isn’t for you. At least the web apps work great on Windows 8, right? [V3]
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Surely this is common sense. If you had the option of catering to the mass market or a small percentage of it, you go with the numbers. Even Google has a limit to it’s resources and they are better used where Google can make the most money.As WP8 adoption increases (assuming it does) Google will support it.
That sounds a bit strange, Windows Phone I could see why, just about… But Windows 8 is a major OS, as in, if you buy a new computer it will have Windows 8 installed.
Sorry, why exactly do you need a Google Maps mobile app on desktop Windows 8? Just use the browser…
Then why even say we are not making Windows 8 apps? Also there are alot of Windows 8 Tablets, why not make mail, you tube, Google drive, Google +, etc apps for it?
Cos for the number of people that use them, it’s not worth investing the $$$ from Google’s point of view.
Reading between the lines it sounds like they’re really saying “don’t buy windows 8/phone”, but if you (and a lot of your friends) do we’ll jump on board.
Windows Phone doesn’t need google, it has bing, Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive and other alternatives from Microsoft. Windows 8 can access all the google stuff in a browser so no bug deal.
Just another attempt from google to try and put the boot into the competition. The only major google thing missing from windows phone is an easy way to upload videos to youtube.
Reading between the lines I doubt Google see WP8 as competition at all. Still very much a niche OS.
Many said that about android when it started, look where it is now. More likely that google sees it as a rising threat.
At the adoption rates of Android, WP8 is going to be a minor player for a long, long time.
That’s also what people said about android before eclair handsets appeared and changed everything. We’ve seen leading operating systems rapidly fall from grace before at expense of newcomers.
does any one know how the Chrome book sales are going??
Maybe when that fails (if*) they will change tact, thing about the chrome book is it could be lacking that key thing small laptops have going for them, the ability to install handy software such as photoshop, lightroom, iTunes, VLC, outlook. I know its based around all of googles bits, so Gmail but companies dont use gmail do they. all the other progs we like, i doubt very much will have a chrome installer.. BUT to be fair i am basing this on mostly guess work as i have not managed to get my hands on a chrome book to test yet.. but i cant see the OS being as handy as WIn8 or OSX.. if people want a lite internet surfer then get linux or a tablet.. i can only see the Chrome book as too late for its target audience.. what are your thoughts… with all that waffle i can see google making apps for Win8 soon enough..
But when you install Chrome you also get an app version on Windows 8?
Dammit Google stop being a penis
Good that leaves the market open for others to create Apps – can already access GMail through the free mail app.
Google seem to be conceding the desktop battleground to Microsoft – this will allow Microsoft Live services to dominate in the Windows 8 arena. Bear in mind that we are talking about an 80% market share here. I’ve been evaluating Windows 8 and it’s real strength lies in the integration of cloud service via Live apps like Skydrive and Outlook.com into a single roaming profile. Maybe Google are thinking that by withholding their apps Android tablets can eat into the Windows desktop/laptop market share, but what I think will really happen is that people will migrate to the equivalent Microsoft services, and once they’re using those it’s an easy choice to switch to the Windows Phone platform too.
For the record I do a huge amount of mobile/desktop integration and the new generation of Live products are the best cross platform performers I’ve seen to date.