Posted by
Jochen Fromm-5 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Google-Reader-and-More-Google-Abandoning-of-Apps-Services-tp7582001p7582017.html
Like many others I use Google Reader daily, it is hard to understand how they can kill such a good and useful product. Apparently it has to do with G+, see
http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/03/14/former-google-reader-product-manager-confirms-our-suspicions-its-demise-is-all-about-google/
-J.
Owen Densmore <
[hidden email]> wrote:
Good by Google Reader (which I use a lot):
.. and a host of others in this year's Spring Cleaning
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html
I will give them this: they have an export stunt, and I apparently can move to others. I don't use the google front page they killed off, Yahoo instead.
But seriously, does anyone have a crystal ball? I just can't figure Google out!
- Are they consolidating? .. i.e. converting everything to G+?
- What's next to go? .. Google Docs? It gets use by digerati, but few others.
- Is GMail safe? .. It gets a lot of use, but its easy to scrape off the ads, so can't be a profit center.
I'd certainly pay for many of google services .. although I doubt this would stop them from randomly killing off ones I care about.
Is there some obvious trend, like I mentioned above, for example .. moving everything to G+?
Damn!
-- Owen
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