Rob Endrele over at DigitalTrends lays out why he thinks that the Google/YouTube merger makes an Apple/Google media conglomerate that much more likely to surface within the next year.

"But Apple really doesn’t, by itself, have a good delivery or video file management system for the content already on the web. With YouTube, they get content and content management, and with Google they get access to the massive amount of dark fiber (high speed data lines that Google has purchased but which currently are not being used)."