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Google Blocks YouTube App On Windows Phone (Again)

Posted by samzenpus on from the can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.

dhavleak writes "From Gizmodo: Earlier today, the Microsoft-built YouTube app for Windows Phone was unceremoniously disabled by Google. These kind of little inter-corporate kerfuffles happen from time to time, and usually resolve themselves without screwing too many users. But boy, Microsoft didn't take it quietly."

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  1. Windows Phone is DOA by The+Cisco+Kid · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who cares, other than Steve Chair-throwing Ballmer.

  2. Re:Only relevant line by terjeber · · Score: 1, Troll

    Microsoft are a bunch of hypocrites as ever

    Bullshit. Microsoft is asking for permission (with the cooperation of Google) to create a YouTube app on Windows Phone that is similar to the apps that already exists for iOS and Android. Remember, the HTML5 version of youtube.com works fine on Windows Phone, has since it became available.

    What Google is doing is saying: "No, since we don't like your company, you will never be allowed to write an app for YouTube. Ever. We are assholes, and we own YouTube, and we hate Microsoft, so you can go f*ck your self".

    There is no difference between what Google is doing right now and what Microsoft was doing to Lotus 123 (DOS X ain't done until Lotus won't run, or whatever that was). Evil is evil. This time Google is the perpetrator and Microsoft is in fact the victim, or rather Microsoft customers. Google is attempting to use areas where it has a de-facto monopoly to shut out a competitor.

    For the standard /. crowd this is fine when done by Google but not OK when done by Microsoft. Identical behavior. Just shows how utterly moronic the average /.er has gotten. I long for the days when there was actual intelligent conversation on /. but due to morons like this, those is not likely to return.