"Microsoft has not made the browser upgrades necessary to enable a fully-featured YouTube experience, and has instead re-released a YouTube app that violates our Terms of Service - It has been disabled. We value our broad developer community and therefore ask everyone to adhere to the same guidelines"
https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/15/4624706/google-blocks-win...
My impression was Microsoft being arrogant. Besides, Windows 8/10 users could still access YT via web.
Having been a FF/NS/Mozilla browser user since the 90s, I know it's not nice to be treated like a 2nd class citizen. However, unlike the current Edge/IE users, I made a choice.
Not voting is a choice. Not educating yourself is a choice.
Choices have consequences.
However, I believe this instance was more a case of Microsoft scraping/ripping the youtube site, rather than continuing to collaborate with Google.
I'm sure if you or I did something like that, it would be blocked.
I really (at least used to) like Google but as a web developer/user who cares about competition who cares about the web ecosystem I'm starting to hope that relevant EU and US authorities will issue them a non-trivial fine for:
- intentionally working to destroy the third option on mobile phones as described above
- time and time again make their products feel slow in competing browsers
- abuse their position as the worlds most visited (?) website && ad reseller to advertise their own browser in a misleading way
No offense, but I won't support Edge on some stuff I build because very few people use it, and it's too much of a snowflake in some areas.
Note that this doesn't apply to general apps and sites, which should work with Edge more or less out of the box. I'm speaking specifically to cases where the Edge team has decided to ignore a standard and choose their business priorities over consistency.
A better example is the amazon-google kerfuffle over chromecast/amazon devices. Can't recall who "started" it, but the end results is that amazon doesn't sell chromecast/google home, and google blocks youtube from amazon devices. Yes amazon initially did like MS, but eventually had a proper implementation and google still blocked it.
For example, none of the Google apps I have on my iPad support split-screen.
When I calm down and think about it a bit, the original commenter's assertion that apple controls the app market is also flawed. I haven't checked the data lately myself, but I believe that most people use apps on android phones. (It's probably just that not many people on android like to PAY. Which can't really be said to be apple's fault.)