The income has to come from somewhere. All new businesses will probably operate at a loss for some length of time. Sure, maybe if they forced ads earlier on,

The income has to come from somewhere. All new businesses will probably operate at a loss for some length of time. Sure, maybe if they forced ads earlier on, in an effort to be a profitable division earlier another competitor would have arisen. Whoever wins the online video site thing contest is going to end up making money one of two ways, subscriptions or ads. Idk that it makes a lot of sense to me to be mad at Google about it. If not them, some VC or something would have just taken the hit instead.