YouTube makes things difficult for Windows Phone and Apple TV users
The platform of videos of YouTube is preparing a change very important for your service. And it is that their service of paid streaming to avoid ads, in addition to other issues related to the improvements they are carrying out seems to force their team toalso redesign its tools for third-party applications That is, the resources that unofficial applications can use for your users.Something that has already begun to significantly affect users of the Windows Phone platform, who are running out of options to view the YouTube videos, and that will also hit users with older Apple TV devices Something that will not like anything to the most common to this service.
According to different media outlets and blogs focused on the Windows Phone platform, the YouTube team has updated its API or Application Programming Interface (tool to use YouTube capabilities in unofficial applications) to version 3.0, theoretically to start accommodating improvements and changes that are yet to come. However, this has meant that unofficial applications have to change some parameters and adapt to this new API if they don't want their users to stop watching videos.Thus, un generic error video appears in those applications that have not made the leap to adapt. But updated apps don't have it much better
And this version 3 of the YouTube API has left some interesting features by the wayside. This means that the updated applications will no longer offer their users features such as show videos from recent subscriptions, related videos or the number views in search results, recommendations or subscriptions That is, a a lame service with some important deficiencies and for which the official applications cannot do anything, depending directly on the YouTube API All this having note that Google does not support YouTube on Windows Phone, offering as the only alternative the version web, despite not offering the same experience as apps seen on Android or iOS
But users of Windows Phone are not the only ones affected, although they are the main ones. In iOS, the platform of Apple, will also begin to have notable declines in the coming weeks . Due to YouTube changes, some models of Apple TV from 2012 and earlier versions will no longer to play the videos on this platform. Something that will also be noticeable on older devices that stay on iOS 6.0 or some earlier versionr.
Of course, these changes to YouTube will also affect smartTVfrom other companies and other platforms, including Google TV Always referring to the year of release 2012 or even 2013 A blackout of this platform of videos that wants to focus on the future, but that will leave users who have not updated their devices in the older past, despite the fact that televisions usually have a useful life of about eight years.
