[1] http://patrickbgibson.com/post/36041799210/apple-and-twitter
Anything from phones, mp3 players, monitors, tablets, laptops etcetera, they all look cheap, plastic and designed without love and attention to detail. And yes, that includes Google's Nexus range, which aren't ugly but won't win any awards either. It should be possible, look at B&O or Loewe in TV and audio for instance, albeit that they sell at a premium way higher then Apple's. And by the look of it, it's not others they haven't been trying to imitate Apple (hence the lawsuits).
As far as I can tell, getting design right is very, very hard, and takes a broad commitment to excellence most companies are lacking.
And if one company has very conspicuously ignored design and the basic notion of delighting their users with products that aren't just functionally great but make people fall in love with them, it has been Google.
The design of the latest Chromebook is a huge leap, surpassing manufacturers that have attempted to match Apple for years, and comes completely out of left field from a company has so far shown little sign if even having any feeling for design.
For instance, Apple's stores are still powered by WebObjects because WebObject is still one of the best web frameworks in the world.
Do people say that Amazon is "bad at the web" because obidos and gurupa were designed in the 1990s? They're worse than WebObjects by a wide margin. How about all the companies whose web services are from the 1990s?
Including google!
The rest of his examples are cheap shots or simply based on ignorance.
For instance, Game Center having trouble under heavy load is an exceptional event not a daily occurence, and lets not forget the weeks of cummulative time that google has had gmail down because of issues over the years, and all the mail people have lost and the fact that google will just blackhole people's accounts for no reasons and then when it happens you have no way to get your data back.
The rest of it is misunderstanding or misrepresentation.
In other words, this is just more propaganda in the endless google good, apple bad, ideological war that was started to try and cover the fact that android is a blatant ripoff of iOS.