Toldja so!
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/2/2013/01/03/microsoft_claims_google_undermining_winphone/#c_1678361
Microsoft has released another YouTube app into the Windows Phone store. The release of an app may not seem noteworthy, save for the fact that back in May Google prepared a flaming sueball and threatened to heft it in Redmond's direction because its previous app allowed users to download videos and didn't play nicely with …
I've never had any trouble watching (Google's) YouTube on either of my (Googly) Android devices. Funny how the API is stable and functioning for Android devices, yet the same API is supposedly unstable and non-functioning for Windows devices (except the PC of course, where it works just fine).
Maybe Microsoft should learn how to code.
"That threat came after Microsoft threatened to fling sueballs at Google for blocking access to some APIs"
More likely Google blocked the APIs because of the Microsoft antitrust complaint against Google in Europe and the Fairsearch issue and the scroogled campaign and the ...
If Google were found to have revoked access to an API because to a customer because they had made legitimate complaints about their business practices it would go down very badly in court. Especially if those complaints were regarding anti-trust and using your defacto monopoly to bar access to competitors.
""Vulture South lacks a Windows Phone with which to test the app, which may be a good thing"
Let me see now, Blighty's leading tech journal practically boasts about not having access to a mob which would enable them to check this story for themselves. Sorry guys, that is not precisely impressive.
I have downloaded the new YouTube app onto my Lumia 710 running WP 7.8 and it completely fails to play any videos at all.
On the good side, though, xHamster's mobile site does not use YouTube to host any of it's streaming content, so none of my mobile video streaming activiy is affected......