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You've got the causality reversed here. The medium was dying, so the Reader product was killed.
by asfasgasg 8y ago
You've got the causality reversed here. The medium was dying, so the Reader product was killed.
- parrellel 8y agoYou mean Google+ needed promotion so the Reader product was killed.
- emodendroket 8y agoIn the first place they'd rather you used something other than RSS so they can inject promoted content into it.
- rlac16 8y agoNothing stops promoted content being injected by the feed reader. Feedly does it on their free plans.
- asfasgasg 8y agoGoogle+ only existed in the first place because of the thing that was killing the medium and its one hundred and forty character-limited cousin.
- parrellel 8y agoAs I look at the big list of RSS feeds I found this very thread in, I can't help but imagine that news of it's death is a tad exaggerated.
- asfasgasg 8y agoWell, there's that too, but people complaining about Google's decision r.e. Reader don't like being reminded that there are dozens of alternatives.