[erbo]

M$: "Google also says that we are not complying with its 'terms and conditions.' What Google really means is that our app is not based on HTML5. The problem with this argument, of course, is that Google is not complying with this condition for Android and iPhone."

Google's T&Cs that M$ is citing, it would seem to me, apply to third-party use of YouTube data. Since Google wrote the Android and iOS YouTube apps, this is not "third-party use." Google makes the rules for YouTube, and can therefore bypass them with impunity. M$ cannot.

Presumably, a Google-written YouTube app for WinPhone would also be allowed to be non-HTML5. However, I'm sure readers here have a pretty good grasp on the chances of that happening.

[yread]

> M$

Heureka! My timemachine worked and I'm back in the 90s!

[indubitably]

> Google makes the rules for YouTube, and can therefore bypass them with impunity. M$ cannot.

Well, yeah. But for a company so heavily invested in HTML5 to demand another company apply it, while simultaneously not doing so themselves, is a little hard to stomach.

[ZeroGravitas]

I've ben using thé web app on iPhone and iPad recently, and I'm guessing thats not flash. Whats wrong with thé WinPhone browser that it xan't use that?