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Re:I miss Windows Phone by bko on Saturday April 07, 2018 @12:31PM (#16781426)
I’m not sure I understand. Do you mean that their api prevented Microsoft from creating a YouTube app that confirms to their guidelines (shows ads and respects uploaded guidelines as to device? Is this still the case?

The download feature certainly could have been pulled from Microsoft

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Re:I miss Windows Phone by prepend on Thursday April 12, 2018 @09:25PM (#16826424)
Google does not expose an api that supports ads. So third parties can’t build apps that conform to goog.

It’s kind of a dick move all around because it means no one can build (popular) YouTube ads except google. And they don’t build for platforms that threaten them unless they must.

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