I agree there is a lot of pent up demands - my point is that when your Apps users are frustrated at being treated as second class citizens, they either move to

I agree there is a lot of pent up demands - my point is that when your Apps users are frustrated at being treated as second class citizens, they either move to other services and/or discourage others from joining Apps. So the 'Google has it in the bag ... once they release the Apps version' argument to me holds significant risk, because the longer the delay, the less and less certain it will be that it will be a hit because their advocate users are tired of waiting.