The article is ridiculous on the face of it. "Proclaiming that Google+ won’t survive is like saying that the Apple mobile iOS operating system will die, but th

The article is ridiculous on the face of it. "Proclaiming that Google+ won’t survive is like saying that the Apple mobile iOS operating system will die, but the iPhone and iPad will live on" -- a better analogy is "Proclaiming that Google+ won’t survive is like saying that MacOS will die, but the Mac will live on". Except that this _did_ happen. If Google+ fails, Google can let it die, and slowly remove all the places where it has intruded into search. Or Google+ can fail, and Google can decide to drag the whole company down with it, by trading all of their goodwill and usefulness to drive people to their social network. But claiming that they are forced to do the latter is stupid.