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by recoiledsnake 4775 days ago
>I haven't ported any of my own apps to Win Phone either - what's the point when nobody is using it?

So Google's complaint is that "nobody" is using the Windows Phone Youtube app and that this is hurting Youtube because "nobody" is watching so many ad-less videos on Youtube that it's robbing Youtube and content creators of all the "no money" gotten from no ad views in the app which used by nobody? Oh, and did I mention nobody can use the Windows Phone Youtube app because nobody is using Windows Phone?!

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Google's complaint isn't that "nobody" is using WP, so stop bringing out that strawman to make yourself sound smart.

Google's argument is simply that Microsoft, a company that should know better, is intentionally breaking the Youtube ToS. The lack of native app is because Google has determined that WP users can "live with" watching videos in the browser for the time being.