On: Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from ...

[cooldeal]

The issue that triggers that problem is that Google refuses to either give them access to the YouTube API like it does for iOS and Android or makes a WP app itself.

[Someone → cooldeal]

did for iOS (http://t.nbcnews.com/technology/apple-says-youtube-app-wont-...)

There is a Google YouTube app for iOS, though.

[CloudNine → Someone]

Apple developed the original YouTube iOS app with Google's blessings and pulled it after Google released their own official version.

[lern_too_spel → cooldeal]

The API is JSON over HTTP. Getting permission to use it is a completely automated process.

[cooldeal → lern_too_spel]

And I would assume getting banned from the API is also a completely automated process.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started#quo...

[rbanffy → cooldeal]

I guess the Windows Phone guys don't talk to their Xbox counterparts...

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/28/youtube-xbox-app/

[MysticMan → rbanffy]

So what? I think the XBox YouTube app was developed by Google, not Microsoft.

http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...

WP does not ban adding ads to apps.

If Google made a competing game console, would be interesting to see if they would have withheld it like they do on Windows Phone.