May 2013: After Microsoft delivers a surprisingly excellent "official" YouTube app for Windows Phone 8, I name it as an app pick. That same day, it ships the first version of Google Maps for iOS to arrive after Apple unceremoniously dropped Maps from the core OS app set. The history of this battle is more convoluted (and boring) than the plot to "The Phantom Menace." But it goes something like this:ĭecember 2012: Google announces that it has no plans to ship any apps for Windows 8 or Windows Phone beyond a basic Search app. So much for that brief and wonderful détente between the two companies. Microsoft has released a new version of the app that simply pushes users to YouTube on the web.
Well, the long-running war between Google and Microsoft over the latter's creation of an unauthorized/authorized YouTube for Windows Phone 8 has ended in defeat.
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