In the past, I have always been frustrated with Google products. It always felt like that it was 60% complete. Look at Gmail for example, which I live by, was in beta for how many years? Being in beta is one thing, if you want to control demand, and scale your backend infrastructure, but during the beta phase there was almost zero feature additions. Look at Blogger. No change for 4-5 years (although I kept blogging, although less than before).
Fastforward to now. Eric S has finished his baby sitting duty and the founders are now running the show. From an outsider it is also the time that I see there are actual improvements other than the backend - features. While there are decisions to discontinue products like google labs, I don't see that move is holding back google. Obviously any development requires money, and if you look at Google wave, it just was not sucessful in it's time. Timing is so important any products to be sucessful. Imagine computers 100 years ago. I can't see how that would be sucessful at all. I think the development of wave actually gave google docs some pretty nice collobration features.
As a consumer, I finally see that there are developments in the things that I use every day. Gmail, google calendar, google news (although i still don't really like it too much), google reader.
In the tech world, 1 year is such a long time. I just hope that google products keep developing.
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