📚 BBC Pulls iPlayer App for Windows Phone
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🔗 Quelle: news.softpedia.com
BBC becomes the latest company to wave goodbye to Windows Phone, as the iPlayer app will be pulled from the platform in April this year. Speaking about its decision to abandon Windows phones, BBC points to the costs of maintaining the app, obviously hinting that the small number of users who continue sticking with Microsoft’s platform isn’t reason enough to invest in an app. While Windows Phone 8.1 users will no longer be able to connect to iPlayer services, those who are already on Windows 10 Mobile can turn to their browsers, as BBC already updated iPlayer to support Microsoft Edge in Windows 10. “When the BBC iPlayer app was originally created it was not technically possible to playback BBC programmes via the browser. As it’s now possible to playback via the browser it’s no longer cost effective for the BBC to maintain a BBC iPlayer app for Windows mobile devices. And by using the browser version of BBC iPlayer, Windows phone users will get the benefits of the ... ...