but Apple doesn't LIKE Google right now... Google is running around stepping on toes. Mayer could pull a nice recovery by sticking to being just a portal and place to park your online stuff. Yahoo just has to make a point not to step on other people's toes... then they become the "neutral" cross-platform solution.
I like Yahoo over the "dominate all the things" of Facebook or Google right now. if Yahoo could polish up Flicker, Groups, and the other community-building properties they have they could quietly build some nice stuff and make nice money. they just have to stay in the shadows... don't draw attention.
grown ups want "quiet". we don't want always on like facebook, we don't want all our engadget posts collected to our + circles... there's a huge backlash out there of people that just don't want to be THAT connected... yahoo could make lots of bucks.