> Somehow it seems that Google has managed to disappoint a lot of people.

Yeah, and those people aren't wrong - it's not like Google didn't do their own share of messups.

Still, the upplaying of Googles' faults and downplaying of other companies faults (even when they're the same!) has not been the best outlook of this community lately.

I mean... they have. Remember when they pledged to "don't be evil"? Remember all of their cool initiatives that crashed and burned and were killed quickly?

I am afraid you would need to rewind further than that.