Google blocks Windows Phone YouTube app again, for “manufactured” reasons

I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s Ars&#x27; commentary, or just the commenters, but it seems entirely sided towards Microsoft. Ars didn&#x27;t mention that Microsoft didn&#x27;t want to play by the rather simple rules of &quot;put the video in a web frame&quot;, and that Microsoft admits to re-releasing the application they previously pulled because it didn&#x27;t follow the rules.<p>Plus, it seems like the author of the post fails to understand what Google wanted, and that Microsoft was being totally passive-aggressive in their blog post.

This whole thing is a giant nothingburger. There are plenty of Youtube apps for WP. The official one on iOS that got so much hype on release (and talk now regarding the lack of a WP version) is frankly awful compared to many of the alternatives and currently sits at 2 stars on the iOS store.<p>WP users be thankful you don&#x27;t have either the MS port or an official Google one. From what I gather even if you had both, you&#x27;d still want to download Metrotube.

Besides that this was heavily commented a few hours earlier in another thread, everyone can play YouTube videos without ads via VLC.<p>Is VLC a YouTube application or not? Because it doesn&#x27;t use HTML[5].

I agree with this comment on the Ars thread[1]. I know this was discussed extensively here[2]. But, the comments on the thread seemed a bit biased towards one side.<p>[1] - <a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/google-blocks-windows-phone-youtube-app-again-for-manufactured-reasons/?comments=1&amp;post=25106575#comment-25106575" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-blocks-windows...</a> [2] - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6220233" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6220233</a>

This is business. Microsoft would do exactly the same if the situation was reversed.

If nobody buys a Windows phone, is this just a theoretical argument about legal semantics?

I think Google is wrong and fighting the wrong company. But not all Larries can become &quot;the Larry&quot;.

just out of curiosity, are there official youtube apps on blackberry, new and old, Bada and the new comers like Jolla,FirefoxOS etc?

Do no evil , LAWL