[halJordan]

The doom and gloom comes from much the same pontificating and rumormongering. Except somehow less official, and that's what you want us to go with?

[stackskipton]

Doom and gloom comes from everyone who has followed Google history. Google does not do what I call "Enterprise orderly shutdown of services" which is decrease releases/features, announce depreciation, give shutdown date and shutdown. They just do layoffs, radio silence and BAM, SHUTDOWN!