This won't be the last critical review that Google gets. History has shown that people are incredibly quick to dismiss and attack things they don't understand.
A good (recent!) tech example would be the iPhone: back in 2008; it's kind of funny now, but my first impression of it was "huh, where's the stylus?" and I wasn't alone. The amount of "No stylus, so it's hard to use" FUD being spread around was incredible.
Now my two year-old son tries to swipe on my computer dumbscreen to go to the next photo. The "People of the land.... morons" opinion curve is probably going to follow the same trajectory; they will dismiss and criticize until they can't remember how crappy driving a car really was.
A good (recent!) tech example would be the iPhone: back in 2008; it's kind of funny now, but my first impression of it was "huh, where's the stylus?" and I wasn't alone. The amount of "No stylus, so it's hard to use" FUD being spread around was incredible.
Now my two year-old son tries to swipe on my computer dumbscreen to go to the next photo. The "People of the land.... morons" opinion curve is probably going to follow the same trajectory; they will dismiss and criticize until they can't remember how crappy driving a car really was.