Windows Phone Youtube app claimed to violate Google's terms of service, nonfunctional in the meantime.
Google and Microsoft haven't been the best of friends lately, and the latest incarnation of this broken relationship is Google shutting down the Youtube app on Windows Phone yet again. If you'll recall back to the first time the companies clashed over Youtube, Microsoft had pretty much done a one-off app after being frustrated with Google's lack of Windows Phone development.
Now after re-releasing an official app after collaboration with Google, Microsoft has seen the same fate. A statement by Google indicates that Microsoft is still breaching the terms of service for creating a Youtube app, even though Google was involved in the development:
"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," says a spokesperson. "It has been disabled. We value our broad developer community and therefore ask everyone to adhere to the same guidelines."
Microsoft, naturally, doesn't see things the same way. Posting to Microsoft's TechNet blog, David Howard seems to think that Google is taking an unfair look at Microsoft in order to focus on Youtube for Android and IOS. Together with the recent quarrels over Gmail and Google Maps, we're unfortunately in for a long road of fighting between Google and Microsoft.
Source: Microsoft; WPCentral
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