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Re:Google blocks Windows Phone YouTube app again, for “manuf... by nknighthb on Friday August 16, 2013 @01:23AM (#6222313)
The rule exists to ensure the continued compatibility of third-party applications with requirements of the YouTube service. Google can fix its own apps, and it can fix the content of an iframe loaded from its servers, but it can't fix apps it doesn't control.

There are good reasons for this very simple rule that everyone but Microsoft seems able to comply with. By definition, such a rule cannot be "arbitrary".

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Re:Google blocks Windows Phone YouTube app again, for “manuf... by cantankerous on Friday August 16, 2013 @12:44PM (#6225114)
It's disingenuous to say "everybody but Microsoft" when the group size of third-party apps that act as realistic YouTube viewers is something like 2-4.

If you pride yourself and market yourself on openness any rule that flies in the face of said openness is entirely arbitrary, because there shouldn't be any rules limiting your openness.

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Re:Google blocks Windows Phone YouTube app again, for “manuf... by nknighthb on Friday August 16, 2013 @02:49PM (#6225988)
It's disingenuous to treat your religious dogma on the word "open" as shared by everyone else. I don't believe for a second you understand how Google is using the term nor what they are applying it to.
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