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I'd say it's too quick to call it dead. I think Google did it a huge disservice marketing the way they did. It obviously launched in a ****ing alpha stage (not even beta) and they expected people to pay for it like it was a finished and refined service. Stupid. They should have released it under the idea that it was an alpha, tested it, debugged it, then 6 months down the road, moved it into beta and grew excitement from those growing with it, capping off a year or so (depending on how it went) with a full release and treated it like a service people could jump into with VERY little buy in and as it became something with a base, then start introducing premium features at a cost. As it is, they've got their pants down, and no ones trust.