It's not whining. Speculation led people to think that this was a losing combination of two declining companies. While this allegiance does make quite a bit more sense; it still doesn't seem to be... well, the best option out there imho.

But, let's see what will/does happen. As it stands, my expectations will remain rather low - mainly because both companies are honestly notorious for missing the mark in some of their simpler, supposedly more intuitive offerings (an aside, I absolutely hated how Yahoo Maps had the wrong documentation notes for their AS2 and AS3 API's for 2+ years in some spots and I had to basically guess, whereas Google Maps AS3 implementation API was documented spot on) - because of their history.

This announcement makes sense. I just hope they can make it work correctly the first time. No Flickr integration is odd though.