Amazon and Google clash over YouTube access

Amazon and Google have clashed publicly after access to YouTube was pulled from one of the online retailer's devices. Amazon said Google had blocked YouTube on Echo Show "Without explanation". "However, Amazon said in its statement:"Google has chosen to no longer make YouTube available on Echo Show, without explanation and without notification to customers. In 2013, Google ordered Microsoft to remove its unofficial home-made YouTube app from the Windows Phone store, despite not providing an official app. In 2016, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos said the retail giant had stopped selling the Apple TV video-streaming box, because the two companies had not agreed "Acceptable business terms" to include Amazon's Prime Video service on the device.

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