This is an extremely good point... Hopefully it will be much like iGoogle or Android, where the user creates and customizes the interface to make it cater to his/her needs.

"It's an interesting company, and I hope it stays that way."

Definitely agree, and I also hope it does.

This is pretty contradictory... Blogger and Picasa were two "clean" applications that are being retired. They focused on one thing and did it right. Yet they weren't succesful in the longterm. I don't think Google is trying to be anything and everything, it's just building the framework to make it possible for other companies and programmers to add their specific and "clean" apps. This will create a constant expansion and evolution with the needs of the users. And I'm pretty sure they will make it the open source concept that Android is, and Android seems to work wonders because of it.

I for one welcome to consolidated approach, where one thing works with the next, as long as they don't also take the propriatery approach like Apple.

Agreed!

I dont fully agree with what you're saying. Although you do raise very good points, we can just look over at Apple and see that most mass consumers are just gobbling up this type of approach. I feel Google can amend and adapt their approach to make it valid for many years. One would of thought that Google.com alone wouldn't of lasted as long or been as popular as it is... And to that point, Google already revolves around one central idea... it's search engine. And that has evolved and adapted with the need of the end user in a very good way.