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Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8
First time accepted submitter exomondo writes "Google has given Microsoft until May 22nd to pull their Windows Phone 8 YouTube app from the marketplace and disable it on customer devices. It not only includes a built-in ad blocker but also allows users to download videos and doesn't impose device-specific streaming restrictions outlined in the YouTube Terms Of Service. A Microsoft spokesperson said in part: 'YouTube is consistently one of the top apps downloaded by smartphone users on all platforms, but Google has refused to work with us to develop an app on par with other platforms. Since we updated the YouTube app to ensure our mutual customers a similar YouTube experience, ratings and feedback have been overwhelmingly positive. We'd be more than happy to include advertising but need Google to provide us access to the necessary APIs. In light of Larry Page's comments today calling for more interoperability and less negativity, we look forward to solving this matter together for our mutual customers.'"
There are advertisements on youtube? I've used Adblock Plus for so long I forgot about what some folks deal with.
How, precisely, are Windowsphone and tablet users entitled to google's software? (short answer: they are not). This is more M$ double-speak "remember when those neck-beards got all bent out of shape because we reserved the most efficient APIs for our products -- let's say this is the same thing." But it's not the same thing -- Microsoft is demanding that Google spend time and resources building a Youtube app to support M$'s (barely existent) corner of the market. Google doesn't want to have their developers spend time on that app for M$ -- so M$ built an app that flagrantly violates the TOS for the youtube API and the youtube site itself.
Microsoft is by no means "right."