Quite a few of the images there includes technology that we use in transportation today...

I would more say that it's a case of MS complaining that it cannot do whatever they want, like they used to be able to...

Look at what MS have been doing with their previous versions of the application... I would myself start to be extremely strict on the TOS for any company that have blatantly ignored it from the beginning.

According to a "angry letter" posted on technet... If you do a simple search for this and read a few of the articles you can see a behavior from MS that is not ok... I can understand Google for forcing MS to follow the TOS to the letter after the crap they have tried to pull.

Even if Google is slow on providing MS with what they must comply with and how they can do this does not make it ok for MS to publish an application that still fails to meet the terms.

If MS is having issues then they can pay for some youtube experienced developer to come over and assist them with the stuff..... Can be from Google or other places...

Yes, i read the article and also a few more related articles about this... The link was to what Microsoft wrote on technet, ie their opinion of what is happening.. If you actually check a few more sources you can actually find a bit of history of how Microsoft have behaved since the start of this.
If a company blatantly ignores terms and continues to say that "we fixed it" without actually fixing the opposite party might become more and more strict on the terms specified for the service.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms
There you go.. It's for the publicly available API, not for the ad-enabled API but to get access to that you have to agree to a similar terms, and you have about the same level of documentation for that.

And just because they have not yet received the information does not make it ok for them to publish the application that fails to follow the terms. If they have problems to fulfill all the terms maybe they should pay google for a single person to do a simple "do we fulfill the terms now" test before they go public with the app.

Nope, not if you place them at a optimal distance between each other. Since all carts will have to pass the bend they will all slow down. So as long as the distance between each cart is at least the difference in distance a cart will go at the slower speed compared to full speed, and that is probably not that much and should probably fit the time it takes to unload/load passengers on each end.

I think i read that Google did not want to write an application currently because the Windows-Phone market-share was too small.

They can as long Microsoft fails to comply with the requirements-list.

Why should Google be forced to allow a platform with 3.3% smartphone market-share to bypass the rules they have set for other platforms?

Google are not being assholes, they are protecting their revenue from the ad's playing together with the videos..

They had 2 requirements that microsoft listed in the article.
- Not an HTML5 app. (requirement from Google maybe?)
- Google claims that the application does not show the AD's as it should in all instances.

Only time Microsoft can complain is if they fulfill all the listed requirements and Google still refuses them access.

From the article:

Why should Google allow any other company to develop their own application without following the requirements specified for the service?

If Google says "you gonna have to write it in Amiga E and then emulate a 68000 cpu on the phone to run it" that will be the terms of using the service... It's only google than can decide what the rules are and they are free to set them to any level they want and they can be as hard and as soft as they want towards anyone implementing it... Microsoft have a reputation of not playing nicely so then Google might just be a bit more string on the rules.

And if comparing this to how Microsoft behaved back in the day this is nothing..

Open web != Use our stuff any way you want.

Open web == Use our stuff for free as long as you follow or requirements.

Well...... Look it up how much ad-revenue the different channels make on a popular show on prime-time ....

It's that the companies wants to make more money... And the channels and the cable-companies are usually separate partners where the cable-operator has to license the channel, even for ad-driven ones... Then you have crap where a studio would license that only this channel is allowed to air this series in this country during this time-period, and then that channel then makes plans to make allot of money on the show during this time...

It's all economics, and the old channels/cable-operators are still clinging on to the old ways since the current distribution model will hopefully be gone in 5-10 years allowing new service-providers to offer this content in more specialiced ways and cutting out the middle-man (the channel) and just leaving the production-company and the service-provider.

For a 40 minute episode even having one ad-break is too much for something you have to pay to get access to.. Having 20 minutes advertising during a 40 minute episode is way to much!

And usually the ad-breaks are placed where something exiting is happening just to try and keep you in the sofa during the break and not change channel either.

Does not look like it could get it here in Sweden, but they have been doing this on a few shows like "Game of Thrones" and "True Blood"... If i first sign up for a subscription to my cable-operator. 30EUR per month and then add a premium package on top for 23EUR..... If i don't want to sign a 18 month contract i would have to pay at least 300EUR for a PVR box too so i can watch the shows when i want.

So for ~53EUR + >300EUR i could get 2 series i regularly watch (Game of thrones and True Blood)..... Don't really see that it would be worth it even if Breaking Bad was added.

Netflix/HBO/Filmnet etc are not options either.. Issue there is that i would have to get all of them and then keep track of where each episode is "aired" and so on so it just makes it harder.. And i would still not get all the shows i want... They cost between ~7-10Eur per month or so and i do not want to pay for something that makes it harder to use, more expensive without any gain, and still is missing some things i want/need.

If someone could license *ALL* movies/series in a sane way so it could be made available globally. Profit can easily be shared via something like ((/)*)-...
For movies i could accept that it would show up at the same time as it goes on DVD/Blueray... As long as it's within 2-3 months from when it started in the cinemas...

For that type of service i would have no problem paying up to 50-80EUR per month.... Say 5 series (40 minutes each) and 2 movies (90 minutes each) = 380 minutes = 0.1315789473EUR per minute = 5.2631578920 EUR per 40 minute episode or 10.6578947313EUR for a 90 minute movie (and 80% or so of this going to the maker of the movie/series).... Even cutting this down to a 20EUR/month would still give back quite a bit per minute of media, and since it's all streaming then if someone re-watches the same movie a year later they will get the same amount again...

If the provider wants to attract more classical tv-watchers they can have channels where content is shown according to a playlist and then have some live-shows (news etc) mixed in.

There are crazy people for everything... Did you ever find out what pushed him to this level of paranoia?

Get in contact with a plants-store in one of the countries with an available supply and ask them to ship over night?

Just because you cannot purchase the things locally you can always order online... And if enough people start doing it some local shops might start importing it on a regular basis..

Or you will just have to wait for the summer...