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Worst than that. Google only seems interested in huge successes. Things like Google Reader had healthy user bases when Google came for them in the night. They
by the-pigeon 7y ago
Worst than that. Google only seems interested in huge successes.
Things like Google Reader had healthy user bases when Google came for them in the night.
They could even sell most of the products they murder to someone else for millions.
- harryh 7y agoThey could even sell most of the products they murder to someone else for millions. It would have cost Google more money to sell Reader than anyone would have bought it for.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoThat's a statement that cries out for analysis, although I'm not doubting you could be right still - it's not the kind of thing one just states without backing it up.
- harryh 7y agoReader was written using a bunch of proprietary Google tools, deployed on proprietary Google infrastructure and used a proprietary Google system for authentication. It's hard to even imagine how it could have been split apart from the mothership at all.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoThanks!
- UncleMeat 7y agoWhere is RSS now? Are there products that filled the niche left by Reader? No. The technology died. Isn't this clear evidence that the product was dead in the water?
- juped 7y agoIt's literally in a <link> element on the very website you're posting on, dude
- dave5104 7y ago> Things like Google Reader had healthy user bases when Google came for them in the night. I wonder if anyone in Google management ever looks back and regrets that decision? It's still always being brought up, even 6.5 years later.
- sylens 7y agoIt was the end of the halo effect for Google amongst the prosumer crowd, definitely.
- res0nat0r 7y agoI'm guessing that the current revenue of GCP vs. Google Reader tells management that they made a smart decision.
- bhl 7y agoI always see google reader talked about on hackernews, but has a comparable product not have been made by someone else yet?
- lallysingh 7y agoThere are plenty, actually. But RSS itself is essentially dead. At least compared to what it was.
- juped 7y agoHow is it dead? Everything still exports RSS feeds.
- lallysingh 7y agoThe last time I tried RSS again (I was a big reader user), every feed had a on paragraph summary and link to the full article on the website. I couldn't actually read the news in it anymore.
- Multicomp 7y ago