Perhaps but I doubt it. He talked about USAGE RATES as the reason it was pulled. Not government regs Perhaps you yield a bit too much.
"There is a simple answer to this question. They did not want to invest any more money in the existing Windows 8 versions due to low usage numbers. Due to security concerns they where not able to leave them in the store either, so they removed them.
They will give Windows 10 a chance but don't think that this is forever. If the usage rates of the apps don't raise with Windows 10 they apps will be removed again."
I'll stand on my earlier comment.
I was not talking about specific security issues with the Windows Phone platform specific. But companies change there API's now and then to improve there own security policies and so on. So if they do this they would have to adopt either the app or make the API's backward compatible which open security flaws. So now we are back with the low usage numbers where simple decisions need to be made.
Believe me or not but this is how things work.
