Google Reader is like "the one that got away" because the landscape changed so fundamentally with it, that no other product could take its place. If Google had

Google Reader is like "the one that got away" because the landscape changed so fundamentally with it, that no other product could take its place. If Google had killed Gmail we would still have Yahoo mail and Hotmail and what not. We would bitch and moan but life would go on. Reader was... different.