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Google blocks Microsoft's new YouTube Windows Phone app
- HelloMcFly 13y agoGoogle's comment: "We’re committed to providing users and creators with a great and consistent YouTube experience across devices, and we’ve been working with Microsoft to build a fully featured YouTube for Windows Phone app, based on HTML5. Unfortunately, Microsoft has not made the browser upgrades necessary to enable a fully-featured YouTube experience, and has instead re-released a YouTube app that violates our Terms of Service. It has been disabled. We value our broad developer community and therefore ask everyone to adhere to the same guidelines."[1] Microsoft's responds by saying cooperation with Google has stalled because Google insists the app be built using HTML5, a technical restriction other mobile platforms are not held to.[2] -- [1]http://www.zdnet.com/why-is-google-blocking-the-new-youtube-app-for-windows-phone-7000019460/ http://www.zdnet.com/why-is-google-blocking-the-new-youtube-... [2] http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/08/15/the-limits-of-google-s-openness.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...
- yuhong 13y agoI wonder what are the needed "browser upgrades" they are referring to?
- midnitewarrior 13y agoThis is what anti-trust laws are for. Microsoft did stuff half as bad as this and had the Department of Justice regulating their business practices for more than a decade.