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This plan is particularly problematic because Google+ is, relatively, a clear failure so far

An absurd statement on the face of it (even with the weasel-word qualifier), given Google+'s large number of active users. In fact, given the traffic there, I suspect his ridiculous Cupertino fanboism is to blame for not considering Google+ a smashing success.



Banding around expressions like "Cupertino fanboism " makes you just as bad, possibly worse.


Go to any article on the web with social media buttons, compare the number on the Facebook, Twitter and Google buttons. One of them is one or two magnitudes lower than the others, which?


So Google+ is not nearly as big as Facebook. That much is obvious. But Marco interprets that as "failure." Any service with 400 million active users is not one I'd label that way.


> for not considering Google+ a smashing success.

Huh? Does _anyone_ consider Google+ a smashing success? On what basis?


Google+ is the 2nd largest social network, with more active users than Twitter. Probably not smashing maybe, but that's success of some sort.




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