Just a week after Roku removed YouTube TV from its App Store thanks to a ongoing quarrel with google, it looks like YouTube has found a smart (if not extremely petty) workaround. Friday, YouTube ad it would only hinder access to YouTube TV in the main YouTube app, which is always available.
As the company plans to expand access to YouTube TV through YouTube, app to “as many devices” as possible “over time,” it will arrive on Roku devices “over the next few days,” according to the YouTube announcement. People who already had the YouTube TV app on their Roku devices before it was unceremoniously removed can still use it as they normally would, but YouTube is implementing a contingency plan if that ceases to be the case.
“We are still working to reach an agreement with Roku to ensure continued access to YouTube TV for our mutual customers,” YouTube said. “We are also in discussions with other partners to secure free streaming devices in case YouTube TV members experience access issues on Roku.
Roku initially accused Google to require Roku to block search results from other third parties streaming apps, like Netflix or Hulu, when the YouTube app is open. Roku also claimed that Google requires the ability to dictate certain hardware used in Roku devices, as well as privileged access to Roku user data. Google refuse these claims, saying that Roku terminated their pre-existing agreement in bad faith because he was trying to renegotiate his Contract regarding the main YouTube application in addition to YouTube TV, despite this contract only expires in December. The YouTube blog post on Friday is just the latest punch between the two companies.
Year stated in an email statement than google acted like nothing less than an “uncontrolled monopolist”.
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“YouTube’s announcement of the consolidation highlights the type of predatory business practices used by Google that Congress, attorneys general and regulators around the world are investigating,” Roku said.
“We simply asked Google to stop its anti-competitive behavior of manipulating users’ search results to their unique financial advantage and to stop demanding access to sensitive data that no other partner on our platform receives. today, ”the company continued. In response, Google continued its practice of taking full advantage of its monopoly on YouTube to force an independent company into a deal that is both bad for consumers and bad for fair competition.
Either way, be impatient to plug another dongle into your TV when that whole relationship inevitably breaks down.
