[lawdawg]

Same reason the vast majority of devs do not make a WP app, or release a crappy version 2 years later.

[CloudNine]

Even Vimeo can make a decent Windows Phone app and a Windows 8 app and Youtube with a order of magnitude more revenue cannot?

If you really believe that, I have a bridge to sell.

Give me a break, Google is doing this to hurt the adoption of Windows Phone.

[lawdawg]

> Google is doing this to hurt the adoption of Windows Phone.

If you really believe that, I have a bridge to sell ... after I stop laughing.

[lawdawg]

@CloudNine WP users can access YouTube videos, the only difference is whether its through an official app or their web browser. So yes, it does matter a lot to them that these eyes are no longer seeing ads that they previously would have.

Google has obviously determined that WPs tiny marketshare isn't enough to justify creating a native app when the browser will work decently enough. Thinking otherwise is just ... idiotic.

Yes, Google is making a big deal out of this when apps like MetroTube already do the same thing. The difference here is its Microsoft, a huge company who has gone out of its way to sling shit on Google, instead of 2 dudes from NZ.

[CloudNine]

>So yes, it does matter a lot to them that these eyes are no longer seeing ads that they previously would have

Then why don't they give access to the Youtube videos and ads API to Microsoft? Microsoft has stated that they're happy to add Google's ads if given access.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715889

[beagle3]

I'm sure that Google will be happy to do that when Microsoft starts being nice to them - e.g., not extorting money from every Android phone maker.

It's taken more than 20 years, but Microsoft is finally reaping the fruits of their bullying.

[ankitml]

an eye for an eye doesnt make the world better my friend. Android wars are making users pay more and this youtube war is also making users suffer.

[rbanffy]

> Then why don't they give access to the Youtube videos and ads API to Microsoft?

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/28/youtube-xbox-app/

I guess they can forward the original e-mail to the WP devs...

[recoiledsnake]

Wow, they just had to just send an email to their instead of pleading with Google for three years for API access. Microsoft sure is stupid!

Or perhaps the Xbox Youtube app was written by Google like the first line of your article says, so the Xbox devs don't have access to the API.

You sure write a lot of unintelligent comments in your haste to criticize MS and pump Google, but this one takes the cake.

[CloudNine]

I'll be laughing longer at you at simplistically believing Google's lame excuse for the lack of a WP app that so many people are using Windows Phone that it's affecting Youtube's ad revenue because of not showing ads to them, but at the same time it's not worth monetizing the very same eyeballs by making an official YouTube app and showing ads to the Windows Phone audience.

[myko]

I'm guessing if Microsoft removed the 'download video' button from their YouTube app - directly violating YouTube's policies - Google wouldn't be so hard lined about this.