What's that got to do with root access? If you can beat YouTube's DRM then you can just make your own player app. No need for root. If you can't then what mak

What's that got to do with root access? If you can beat YouTube's DRM then you can just make your own player app. No need for root. If you can't then what makes you think you could defeat whatever checking for rooted devices YouTube would add to their app? Anyway, this sort of discussion is pretty pointless. The market has spoken. The number of people who care about root access is tiny compared to the number of people who want a safe device and app experience. Heck the entire iPad/iOS experience is pretty much "let's take a general purpose computer, make it do less, and it'll sell much better".