Google Blocks YouTube App On Windows Phone (Again)

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."

Re:How dare Google act like MS from 20 years ago!

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I actually own a Windows Phone too. It's an HTC HD7 my wife bought to spite me (ah, domestic bliss). She did it right - this was a WP "hero" phone, the benchmark of that day. She used it for three weeks thinking to school me but after a few rounds of "how do I do that cool thing you do on your Galaxy Phone" and the reply "your phone doesn't have that app" she gave up. It's in a drawer somewhere. I haven't seen it in a year. She uses a feature phone now, and is thinking about the Moto X - a real wood skin and awesome life would be just the thing to show up my GS3 with the ultrathick 3rd party extended life battery. She bought the teens iPhones to spite me quite more successfully. Our teens love their iPhones and I don't blame them - they're great gear. iThings are not my thing, but you have to let kids find their own religion.

Jesus H. Christ Luvs Microsoft

[MightyMartian]

"But boy, Microsoft didn't take it quietly."

Good for Microsoft, defending all eight of its Windows Phone customers.

Re:Only relevant line

[Anonymous Coward]

Even funnier, Microsoft says

"There was one sticking point in the collaboration. Google asked us to transition our app to a new coding language – HTML5... At the end of the day, experts from both companies recognized that building a YouTube app based on HTML5 would be technically difficult and time consuming,"

So one of the largest software companies in the world can't code an app to display content from a web page in HTML5?

Maybe they should hire some people who've moved past VBA or consider getting out of the business?