Google appears to have ballistic missiles aimed at software giant Microsoft, but its Apple rivalry is considerably more placid. That could have something to do with the fact that Google CEO Eric Schmidt sits on Apple's board of directors (sketchy?). But before we go conspiracy hunting, let's think about how Google could actually compete with Apple's core products, like, say, its music dominance via the iTunes store and playlists. But that would be impossible, you might say, unless Google were the proprietary carrier of millions of songs ... Oh wait. So what about YouTube?
YouTube, which Google bought in 2006, carries millions of songs already -- Top 40 hits, old video classics, and absurd fare in the I-hope-you-like-this-ironically vein, like Harry Potter Puppet Pals and Chocolate Rain. Why not encourage users to build playlists of songs and funny videos and help turn YouTube into Google's own version of a streaming music station?
Well they do, in a way. You can create a playlist on YouTube by clicking on your username and scrolling down to "Playlist" (see below).
Create one and save it, and you can scour the site for songs to add.
Let's say, hypothetically, that I create a playlist out of Coldplay
songs. The window would look like
this. The arrows are mine:
