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Windows Phone's market share in the U.S. is at 3.4% (and apparently isn't growing)[0]. Supporting your apps on another platform is expensive, so I imagine that
by timothya 12y ago
Windows Phone's market share in the U.S. is at 3.4% (and apparently isn't growing)[0]. Supporting your apps on another platform is expensive, so I imagine that Google doesn't support it because the market and users aren't there (relatively speaking). And, of course, Window's Phone users can still visit the mobile YouTube site, which (while I haven't tested it) I imagine supports Windows Phone fine.
If the market share increased significantly, I'd be surprised if they chose to continue not to support it. But for the time being, their decision makes sense to me.
[0]: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/03/windows-phones-market-share-in-the-united-states-isnt-growing/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/03/windows-phones-market-share...
- yulaow 12y agoPersonally on my wp I ever used the youtube site and it works perfectly. I can also have the controls of the streaming with the lockscreen on ( I usually hear some music video from my phone while going to work )
- macspoofing 12y ago>Supporting your apps on another platform is expensive, so I imagine that Google doesn't support it because the market and users aren't there (relatively speaking) Nah. It's not that expensive. They want to ignore the Windows market to stick it to Microsoft. The relatively small Windows Phone market makes it possible for them to do that.