Google does not understand that because of that opening they show ( even if it's fake ) they have the people on their side, and we nerds/geeks are the force that drive others towards tech stuff, easy as this, if 10 regular guys see the "local nerd" using a tech product, most likely some of them will use it, specially if the "local nerd" is a bit of a fanboi. Now we are the ones that made android big, by sales pitches, making freeware, adding to it etc, google provided, or "kinda" provided the OS, and a few utilities.
Now we saw the same exponential growth with google plus, because WE pitched it.
If WE start seeing google as just another evil company, we will stop our google love, move to better places, or just do our own stuff, now I'm kinda scared to do stuff even for android, who knows if google will stop seeing it profitable and just can it, the same thing I think now when I use google app engine, will it be there tomorrow ?
will it suffer the same fate as: Lively, google wave , google health, google green, google translation api, now google labs ?
So really like 1 year ago I thought to myself, kool I'm going to save all my documents on google docs, all my pictures to Picasa, all my videos to Youtube, and just keep all that in the cloud and forget about backups and I know google will be here much much longer than I'll ever be, and well I'll pay for the addional Space I'll need.
Now really, how do I know, Docs will be here tomorrow ? Picassa ? Youtube ?
I have to say that now I'm hesitant to start adding to G+, I have no idea if it wll be there tomorrow, at least with Facebook I know something, FACEBOOK is the only product they have and they are not going anywhere.
Thank you Google.. :(