It was just this week that YouTube finally returned to Windows Phone, and Google has already blocked the new app.
Microsoft and Google collaborated on this version of the Windows Phone YouTube app after bickering over it for months, but apparently it's still not good enough.
"Microsoft has not made the browser upgrades necessary to enable a fully-featured YouTube experience, and has instead re-released a YouTube app that violates our Terms of Service," a Google spokesperson told The Verge today.
"It has been disabled. We value our broad developer community and therefore ask everyone to adhere to the same guidelines."
Mixed messages
When the new Windows Phone YouTube app debuted on Tuesday, Microsoft released a statement indicating it believed that the app would finally satisfy Google's high standards.
"We've released an updated YouTube app for Windows Phone that provides the great experience our consumers expect while addressing the concerns Google expressed in May, including the addition of ads," the statement read.
Clearly they were wrong. Today, meanwhile, Microsoft said it's "working with [Google] to resolve the issue."
TechRadar has asked Google and Microsoft for their full statements, and we'll publish them here when we receive them.
Source : techradar[dot]com
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