Google blocking Microsoft YouTube App?

Google really seems to be turning out to be the “Evil Corporation”. At least as far as Microsoft is concerned – if the latest blog posts by the folks at Redmond are to be believed. They are apparently blocking a quality YouTube app on the Windows Phone 8 platform.

We had earlier reported on an out-in-the-open situation between Google and Microsoft and things just don’t seem to be simmering.

With this blocking move, WP8 users will not have a full experience YouTube on WP8 – since Google has no app of its own and neither does it have any plans of supporting WP8 in the near future.

This is what Microsoft had to say

Microsoft has continued to engage with YouTube personnel over the past two years to remedy this problem for consumers. As you might expect, it appears that YouTube itself would like all customers — on Windows Phone as on any other device — to have a greatYouTube experience. But just last month we learned from YouTube that senior executives at Google told them not to enable a first-class YouTube experience on Windows Phones.

Google did respond but as we read it, they are claiming to provide access to their website – which is not the same as an app.

Contrary to Microsoft’s claims, it’s easy for consumers to view YouTube videos on Windows phones. Windows phone users can access all the features of YouTube through our HTML5-based mobile website, including viewing high-quality video streams, finding favorite videos, seeing video ratings, and searching for video categories. In fact, we’ve worked with Microsoft for several years to help build a great YouTube experience on Windows phones.

You decide for yourself folks – is Google showing its true colors in the aftermath of the success of Android? Is WP8 the new “Cool” and represents what Google once did? Thoughts?

Via techwhack

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