Engineering has nothing to do with user adoption. It could very well be that the author is reasonably smart and can read between the lines of Google's PR statem

Engineering has nothing to do with user adoption. It could very well be that the author is reasonably smart and can read between the lines of Google's PR statements. It has been well documented that statements from Google could be read as misleading (for instance: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/how-good-are-those-google-plus-numbers-again/251872/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/how-go...)