Redmond, Wash., and
Mountain View, Calif., are at it again, leaving Windows Phone users inconvenienced.
Just two days after a new YouTube app for the Windows Phone debuted, Google has blocked the app — again. Google, which owns YouTube, confirmed to Mashable in a statement that it has disabled the app over grievances with a terms of service violation:
We’re committed to
providing users and creators with a great and consistent YouTube experience
across devices, and we’ve been working with Microsoft to build a fully featured
YouTube for Windows Phone app, based on HTML5. Unfortunately, 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. It has been disabled. We value our broad developer community and
therefore ask everyone to adhere to the same guidelines.
A Microsoft spokesperson also told Mashable the app has been blocked but did not
elaborate: “Google is blocking our updated YouTube app for Windows Phone. We
are working with them to resolve the issue.”
This
is not the first time this has happened. Earlier this year, Google and
Microsoft bickered over Microsoft failing to include
advertising on the YouTube app for Windows Phones. Google then demanded that
Microsoft take YouTube off the Windows Phone OS because of its lack of ads. The
tech giants eventually made
amends in May, and Microsoft
released its latest app Tuesday.
Thursday's
new inconvenience appeared to baffle and irritate some Windows Phone users:
customer reviews on the app's page in the Windows Phone
store clearly showed customer frustrations. "Pathetic," said user
Matthew. "Not working after last update," user Sara said.
"Waited ages for this app and it doesn't work ... Thanks Microsoft. It
just says 'something went wrong ... We don't know what,'" said user
Stanley.
Source: http://mashable.com
