It’s not often that I’ll speak out about something like this. I recognize right up front that Google – evil empire or last stalwart bastion of hope for humanity, your choice – offers a lot of services that just aren’t profitable for them. I gave up on understanding it years ago and learned to just enjoy the pie, as it were. But the news from yesterday that Google is dropping their reader service has me left in shock. I use reader. A lot. I’ve always used it as the background engine to fuel whatever silly RSS reader I want to hook up in front. To have that taken away – to lose all of the saved articles, feeds, etc. (yes, I know I can export, let me have this moment of grief!), plus the money I’ve invested in what are for me the ideal front end readers for it – I am aghast. Simply aghast.
This feed brought to at least half of you via Google Reader.
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- Google announces Reader’s imminent demise (arstechnica.com)
- Former Google Reader product manager confirms our suspicions: Its demise is all about Google+ (thenextweb.com)
- On the demise of Google Reader (martinbelam.com)
The demise of google reader? http://t.co/YXDxTId1qg
I indeed ironically got notified by Google Reader of your blog post about the imminent demise of Google Reader 😉