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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by GeekyBear on Monday September 09, 2019 @05:33PM (#20922694)
Windows Phone came out a year after iTunes dropped the use of DRM, so any native Windows Phone music app would work.

This was not true of YouTube, where Google actively blocked Microsoft from building a native client.

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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by cameronbrown on Monday September 09, 2019 @05:38PM (#20922737)
If I recall Microsoft's client was blocked because it refused to serve ads.
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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by GeekyBear on Monday September 09, 2019 @06:05PM (#20922986)
Microsoft rewrote their native YouTube client so that it would serve Google's ads and disallow video downloads.

Google still disallowed it.

Google likewise disallowed various Amazon devices from accessing YouTube during their Amazon dispute.

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