He sure has a lot of confidence on how successful Google would be with Skype but that doesn't really jive with reality. Google's only successful home grown pro

He sure has a lot of confidence on how successful Google would be with Skype but that doesn't really jive with reality. Google's only successful home grown products are Search and Gmail. Android and Youtube are the most successful acquisitions. Voice, Double-Click, and Analytics are doing ok, and then there are about three dozen failures. It is ok to fail but people shouldn't pretend everything Google touches turns to gold. Skype probably has just as much chance as succeeding with Microsoft as it does with Google.