Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Getting Youtube shut by Google - Computerworld

Google claims that Microsoft’s proprietary YouTube app removed from Windows Phone Store. It writes Wired.

– We request that you immediately pull this app from the Windows Phone Store and disable existing downloads the application no later than Wednesday, May 22, 2013. It writes YouTube chief Francisco Varela to Microsoft.

According to Google violates a policy that determines how other companies can take advantage of the popular streaming service.

message from Varela sent to Todd Brix, head of the Windows Phone Apps and Store. It shows a document Wired has caught in. It writes Computerworld Denmark.

In a letter to emphasize Varela that this generally revolves around three offenses.

Read the full letter here.

– It appears that the application (1) allows users to download videos from YouTube, (2) prevents the display of ads in YouTube videos, and (3) playing videos our partners have limited for playback on some platforms (such as mobile devices with limited features). It writes Varela to Microsoft.

In addition to this letter Brix, Varela has sent a letter to Google sjaf Larry Page, in which she describes Microsoft’s infringement.

In this letter she once wrote that a “milking” Google’s innovations.

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