There were plenty of people inside Google who would have liked to maintain Reader, but management explicitly made the decision to shut it down. (I'm not saying

There were plenty of people inside Google who would have liked to maintain Reader, but management explicitly made the decision to shut it down. (I'm not saying that there's anything inherently unreasonable about that, although I happen to disagree with the decision. But these things cost money and they decided they didn't want to spend the money.)