Microsoft's legal chief: "We continue to be dogged by an issue we had hoped would be resolved by now: Google continues to prevent Microsoft from offering consumers a fully featured YouTube app for the Windows Phone." Utter nonsense, since MetroTube offers a complete and full YouTube experience on Windows Phone (it's one of the best Windows Phone applications), and YouTube+ on Windows 8. Two fantastically rich applications, built by small ISVs - yet Microsoft can't do the same? Don't make me laugh. Coincidentally, Microsoft is also whining some more about Google's removal of ActiveSync - Redmond again refuses to acknowledge that all it needs to do is implement the open standards CalDAV and CardDAV, just like everyone else has done. Times have changed, Ballmer. You don't get to dictate the industry anymore.
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MetroTube and YouTube+ break because they use non-documented APIs, the public facing YouTube API has hardly changed.
Why does MetroTube need to use these APIs?
Wait for it.
Because YouTube doesn't offer up an API. It's also interesting that only third party YouTube apps which are forced to use these APIs break, and not officially sanctioned YouTube apps.
The fact that you make excuses for this is ridiculous.
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They break because the API changes. Documented APIs change too. Third parties adapt. That's life as an ISV. Ask the SAMBA guys. Ask OpenOffice. Ask anybody who has ever had to tap into someone else's APIs, specifications, or standards.
You have offered up zero evidence that this is all a big conspiracy to harm consumers using Windows Phone, as you claim. Until you do, you're just rambling nonsense.
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Furthermore, Microsoft has stated they are ready to release a YouTube app, and is just waiting on consent from Google to do so, since it is part of the non-public API.
Google refuses to do so. Microsoft has stated that the YouTube team themselves would like this to happen, but higher ups at Google prevent this from happening.
Seriously, not having YouTube is a serious chink in Windows Phone's armor, and I don't think Microsoft would lie about honestly wanting a YouTube app on the platform but being blocked by Google. They're not the ones with the leverage here.
MetroTube and YouTube+ have to spoof their requests to make them seem like they're coming from supported platforms. Its a constant cat and mouse game.
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They were broken because YouTube changed its API in various ways. That's life. APIs change. Third party developers adapt. Every company known to man does this, and there's no evidence WHATSOEVER that this was done on purpose just to break everything.
They are also not "routinely broken". That's a clear and utter lie. I've been using YouTube+ for god knows how long, and this was the FIRST time this happened - and it was fixed quickly.
MetroTube and YouTube+ (and various others) are evidence that Microsoft is making excuses for its own failing to provide a good YouTube application.