MetroTube to be discontinued after January 1st

Lazyworm

We tin can't believe we're writing this but after January 1st, 2022, Lazyworm, the devs behind the super pop MetroTube volition cease to offer the application. Those of yous who have it at present are all set every bit the app will go on to operate, but after 1/one/12 you lot won't be able to re-download the application from the Marketplace.

The reasoning is vague merely it involves the notion that the YouTube service (endemic by Google) has not been supportive of Windows Phone and does not accept any documented APIs for high quality videos. Most Windows Telephone YouTube apps accept been using a workaround, but Lazyworm believes that this is not feasible in the long run. In a letter posted to their customers (PDF) they write:

"We are extremely saddened to denote that as of the 1st of January 2022, our applications 'Metrotube' and 'YouTube' will no longer be bachelor for download from the Windows Telephone Marketplace.

YouTube's current API does non have any documented methods for obtaining high quality video content. Nosotros take been using a workaround to obtain this content and it has recently come to our attention that this may not be sustainable in the long term, hence our decision to stop distributing the apps.

The apps should remain functional for those who accept already installed them however we will exist unable to push button out whatever farther updates. Of form, you lot can also continue accessing YouTube videos directly through your spider web browser."

Truly this is a massive accident to the Windows Telephone ecosystem as MetroTube quickly became the must-take YouTube app. No word if other developers will follow suit or what Microsoft may do to better the state of affairs. Hopefully nosotros'll hear more in the coming days. Lazyworm expects to even so develop for Windows Phone as a platform, so hopefully we'll see some more of their great work just in other forms in the future.

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