Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store [Update]

Last week the official YouTube app for Windows Phone received a major overhaul. Version 3.0 of the app brought some crawly Windows Phone eight features similar the ability to play under Lockscreen, download videos for offline play, pinnable channels and more. It went from spider web-wrapper to awesome with the recent update. Google now wants the app removed from the Store for violating YouTube'south API and Terms of Service.

Francisco Varela, YouTube's Manager for Global Platform Partnerships, sent a letter to Todd Brix. The latter (attached/linked below) asks for Microsoft to remove the YouTube app from the Store by Wednesday, May 22. Not just remove the app, but also disable existing downloads of the app. Aka, the "impale switch", which (equally far as we tin can remember) has only been used in one case before.

Hither are three strikes against Microsoft co-ordinate to Google.

• Allows users to download videos from YouTube
• Prevents the display of advertisements in YouTube video playbacks
• Plays videos that our partners have restricted from playback on sure platforms (e.m., mobile devices with limited characteristic sets)

Here's a choice quote from Varela specifically near removing ads from YouTube videos:

"Content creators make money on YouTube by monetizing their content through advertizing. Unfortunately, by blocking advertising and assuasive downloads of videos, your application cuts off a valuable ongoing acquirement source for creators, and causes damage to the thriving content ecosystem on YouTube. In improver, your awarding overrides specific decisions fabricated by some content creators to keep their content from displaying on sure types of devices, which in many cases are due to exclusive distribution arrangements those content creators have with third parties. YouTube'south agreements with creators requite them choices in how their content is presented and distributed, and your application takes abroad that control."

It's understandable for Google to be upset at Microsoft for circumventing their ad revenue, but it would be nice for the two tech giants to play squeamish eventually. This isn't the start time Windows Phone users have been shafted by the Mountain View company not willing to develop for the platform. We could listing a dozen other examples, just the today we're focused on YouTube. Earlier this year we learned that Microsoft has put the ball squarely in Google'southward court to give a decent YouTube feel on Windows Telephone.

Update: Microsoft is sending out a standard PR response on the matter, tossing the ball back into Google's court:

"YouTube is consistently one of the top apps downloaded by smartphone users on all platforms, but Google has refused to piece of work with us to develop an app on par with other platforms. Since nosotros updated the YouTube app to ensure our mutual customers a like YouTube experience, ratings and feedback have been overwhelmingly positive. We'd exist more than happy to include ad just need Google to provide us access to the necessary APIs. In calorie-free of Larry Page's comments today calling for more than interoperability and less negativity, we look forward to solving this matter together for our mutual customers."

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Source: The Verge

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