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Google I/O, Microsoft, and Apple's App Store - 90 Seconds on The Verge

2013-05-15
it's Wednesday May 15 2013 I'm Casey Newton here outside Moscone Center in San Francisco California this is 90 seconds on the verge presented by virgin mobile the 2013 Google i/o conference started today and the company made news across its entire portfolio of products hangouts as Google's new unified messaging platform replacing google talk google+ messenger and the original google+ hangouts on the music front google announced its new subscription service google play music all access the company also took the wraps off a brand new version of google maps for desktop web browsers one thing that was missing was a new version of Android Google's developer site confirmed that Android 4.3 is coming but so far it's m.i.a in less friendly news Google is demanding that Microsoft pullets YouTube application for Windows Phone Microsoft wrote the app itself but the company is now received a cease-and-desist letter from Google's attorneys the problem the app blocks adds a violation of youtube's terms of service despite the complaint the YouTube app is still available for now and finally that other app store just hit a big number 50 billion downloads Apple announced that the App Store crossed the threshold today less than five years after it was lunch apple's figure is impressive but it's got competition androids now logged 48 billion installs itself and that's it for today's top stories join us tomorrow when I'll step through a wormhole and travel 24 hours back in time and should be arriving right about
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