In life, there are times when we love, especially in summer. This is what happened to David Howard, vice president of Microsoft in charge of negotiations with Google to publish the YouTube app for Windows Phone. On Thursday, the Internet giant has blocked the application developed by Microsoft to enable its users to surf the video platform owned by Google again. In an inflammatory post on an official Microsoft blog, David Howard hardly restrain his rage. “The Google queries are impossible to meet, and they know it,” he says in particular. For its part, Google relies on rules that are the same for all developers. “You may be wondering what happened to the YouTube application Windows Phone? ” ton David Howard in the introduction. “In May, after the launch of our application, Google made several reservations: we then agreed to withdraw and work with them to meet their demands, he recalled this week after resolving all the issues. we relaunched the application, and Google has just blocked, “he adds. “It is clear that the reasons invoked Google to block our application are created from scratch so that we can not offer our users the same experience as those who chose an Android device or iPhone”, asserts does there. These platforms “both use Google as default search engine”, like it is to recall. Windows Phone uses its side portal Microsoft Bing. “Objections Google is not only at odds with its commitment to openness, but require the Windows Phone application requirements which can not impose himself on its own platform (Android, ed) or the Apple (iOS, ed), “says David Howard. Applications for Android and iOS developed by Google, which owns YouTube. But for Windows Phone application is developed by Microsoft, in the absence of interest from Google, which is not seen as a good thing for the return of the editor of Redmond on the smartphone market. The first version of the application had good reason to annoy Google: it does not allow the display of advertisements, the reason to live Google, and allowed users to upload videos, that is to say to them again without connecting to the site and, by extension, without seeing an advertisement. In short, it was too convenient for users, at the expense of the search engine business model. But Microsoft has swallowed his pride and disabled functions exposed by Google before publishing a new version of the software. “We did it without costing a dime to Google, we have been pleased to think that an application enables Windows Phone users to surf Google services, and thus to bring him money “quips David Howard. But Google has made a new request: he wants an application in HTML5, a standard web. The idea is commendable, on the bottom, but the integration in a mobile application is relatively complex, especially without starting from scratch. “We have allocated significant exploration of this possibility resources and experts from both companies acknowledged that it would be very difficult,” said the ticket. “I guess that’s why neither the application for Android or the iPhone app (developed by Google, ed) are coded in HTML5,” quips, rightly, the vice president of Microsoft. “Their objections are just excuses [...], but if Google stops to block our application, we will be happy to work with them at the expense of Microsoft,” says the head of the editor. Contacted by The Point.fr Friday morning, Google simply wants to remember that “provide a consistent experience to users regardless of the platform.” “We have worked with Microsoft to publish a YouTube application for Windows Phone HTML5, but Microsoft has not made the necessary improvements to its software to allow a complete experience on YouTube,” the Web giant. “Out of respect for our developer community, we ask everyone to follow the same guidelines development” says Google.
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