The war of the words between tech giants Microsoft and Google heated up considerably this week when Google blocked a relaunched YouTube app for Windows Phone, causing Microsoft to lash out and question the validity of Google’s complaints. “It seems to us that Google’s reasons for blocking our app are manufactured so that we can’t give our users the same experience Android and iPhone users are getting,” wrote David Howard, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for litigation and antitrust.
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Google to Microsoft: No HTML5, No YouTube App
Posted by: Peter Suciu August 16, 2013 04:57 PMThe war of the words between tech giants Microsoft and Google heated up considerably this week when Google blocked a relaunched YouTube app for Windows Phone, causing Microsoft to lash out and question the validity of Google’s complaints. “It seems to us that Google’s reasons for blocking our app are manufactured so that we can’t give our users the same experience Android and iPhone users are getting,” wrote David Howard, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for litigation and antitrust.