[beagle3]

> Just Nokia seems to have sold 20 million phones in the past few quarters.

Ok. Nintendo has sold more than 100 million Wii consoles. It has no kindle app. It has a YouTube app. Your comparison to Amazon is still bogus.

> How are the same number of WP users simultaneously not worth monetizing by YouTube enough to make an official app and at the same time hurt their revenues if not monetized by being shown ads to?

I'm sorry, we appear to be living in different planets.

Google is under no obligation whatsoever to give preferential treatment to Microsoft, regardless of how much money it costs or earns them. And as Microsoft is still bullying Google's Android partners with patent threats, Google refuses to give Microsoft a preferential treatment. It's so simple. And yet, it seems so hard for many people on this thread to understand.

[amanne]

>Google is under no obligation whatsoever to give preferential treatment to Microsoft, regardless of how much money it costs or earns them. And as Microsoft is still bullying Google's Android partners with patent threats, Google refuses to give Microsoft a preferential treatment. It's so simple. And yet, it seems so hard for many people on this thread to understand.

And if YouTube's content providers and users are hurt by this, so be it?

[hrjet]

Being hurt is a subjective thing.

Imagine YouTube tomorrow decides to encode videos with a new codec, one which a particular processor can't decode easily?

Will the users which own that processor feel "hurt" / get "hurt"?