That's silly. If they wanted to unify their services, they'd turn youtube channels into G+ profiles. And they'd do it without any hassle for the users.
I'm sorry, but it's obvious that Google is desperately trying to inflate their G+ profile numbers by any means they can devise, because they won't admit to themselves that they've already lost the social network battle to FB. No amount of being apologetic and spin-doctoring can make this less obvious.
Turning a YouTube channel into a G+ profile doesn't fix it. YouTube channels are often owned and managed by multiple people. A G+ profile is a user identity, G+ pages represent places or things. So you'd then force everyone to have a separate G+ account just for their YT channel so that they can share non-personal login credentials with other people managing this.
This if anything would inflate G+ profile numbers more.
That's silly. If they wanted to unify their services, they'd turn youtube channels into G+ profiles. And they'd do it without any hassle for the users.
I'm sorry, but it's obvious that Google is desperately trying to inflate their G+ profile numbers by any means they can devise, because they won't admit to themselves that they've already lost the social network battle to FB. No amount of being apologetic and spin-doctoring can make this less obvious.