Google has always integrated sign-ons between those services.
It is the unification of user profiles that is causing all the uproar.
Re:We Need To Talk, Google
by VikingCoder on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @03:10PM
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You have a very short memory. Google has NOT always integrated sign-ons between those services, and there was an uproar when it happened.
You are right -- I don't really remember when I had to login with different credentials for Youtube, et al.
Just to clarify, I am making a distinction between being able to sign into a Youtube profile with a Google account and forcing the same profile across all Google properties.
Judging from my preferences, and based on my (limited) anecdotes, it seems that users appreciate the convenience of single-signin solutions, as long as each property they are signing into has a profile that can be managed separately.
Re:We Need To Talk, Google
by mattmcknight on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @11:40PM
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If you seriously don't want to, just create two Google accounts...I'm using multiple sign-in across many of their web properties with my personal account and my corporate Google Apps account.
> Is Google forbidden from integrating signons for all future companies it acquires?
Forbidden, yes; held hostage by their users for all the free platforms they provide in exchange for all the theoretical dollars they generate in page views
Where do you draw the line? GMail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, YouTube, Google+, Android, Chrome, Voice, Hangouts? Should they all have different sign-ons?
Is Google forbidden from integrating signons for all future companies it acquires?