This is to be expected, I think it's good that Google isn't doing what companies like Yahoo are doing and rivalling their own products or releasing a half heart

This is to be expected, I think it's good that Google isn't doing what companies like Yahoo are doing and rivalling their own products or releasing a half hearted integration between products. Google is linking all of their services neatly and much like you can use the YouTube Player on Google+ this is interesting. I will also say that YouTube have had a 'streams' feature in TestTube since 2007 which let you line up videos and chat and in a way was Turntable.fm or this feature in Google hangouts before either. They simply scrapped the rivalling YouTube product which failed to reach a level of success and replaced it with another Google tool which is more powerful.