Yes. Except I’m so sick of synergy and being sold Beyonce’s dress if I watch her video and there’s already too much clutter. Apple’s design team realized what Lisa Simpson explained to Mr. X, too much with the noisy, incoherent, blink HTML tag blinky blinking webpages, less is more.

The reason I use Google search to YouTube when I remember a snippet of a song playing in my head, or want to discover a new artist is that I don’t have to sign up for anything (though I do have a Google account, I can use both services without signing in) am not sold a service with a pop-up (though now occasionally I get the YouTube red offer) and I can share the video very easily on social media.

Google backed HTML 5 and an open source version of H.264 which is the basic streaming codec and similar to Apple’s mp4. They used Google’s muscle at a time that was then critical, when Adobe was suffering bad publicity for leaving backdoor’s open in their software and (Macromedia’s) Flash, the previous standard had become very unpopular. Apple might have otherwise dominated streaming, behind a pay- or fire-wall or inside a walled garden.