The PR problems come with success and size. It's impossible for any large organization, no matter how "non-evil" to avoid criticism and conspiracies. Google has

The PR problems come with success and size. It's impossible for any large organization, no matter how "non-evil" to avoid criticism and conspiracies. Google has done better than most in still maintaining good will, but obviously PRISM isn't helping, and Microsoft and Apple communities are both pushing the privacy angle. (If you really think these concerns are totally organically driven, I encourage you to look at complaints about 'google tracking you' before/after Android was launched, or follow the trail of Microsoft shell organizations and their whisper campaigns) Google commands tremendous marketshare with Chrome now, and so people are going to be hyper-sensitive about anything it does. But I would read PPK on Blink for example (http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2013/04/blink.html http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2013/04/blink.html) to see how Google is treating the Web. Honestly, the Web has been driven forward tremendously in the last few years with HTML5, CSS3, WebRTC, etc but Javascript hasn't budged much, although performance has increased, the warts of the language have not been fixed, and TC39 is taking too long. That's why you're seeing everyone create languages that compile down to JS. My biggest concerns are that if the problems of the Web platform aren't fixed, especially for mobile, a whole generation of people will be raised on native apps, and the most amazing platform for distribution of federated, transparent information in human history will lose. Simply put, the Web is more important than Javascript.