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YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Windows phone. Originally Microsoft put out a number of apps as web wrappers, but the mobile YouTube site kind of awful. So Microsoft wrote a YouTube app of their own that was actually kind of great and allowed you to download videos and play audio in the background and basically actually work right. Google threw a fit and basically made Microsoft delete the app.

Windows central still has a bunch of articles from the time up.

https://www.windowscentral.com/search?searchTerm=Phone+YouTube

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I still miss early Windows Phone. Looking at what Windows desktop has evolved into though, I’m not sure what kind of monster Windows Phone might have turned into if it were still around.