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Was it poor engineering which killed gReader or a strategy decision to go for G+ back when social was a big buzzword?
by chillacy 7y ago
Was it poor engineering which killed gReader or a strategy decision to go for G+ back when social was a big buzzword?
- taeric 7y agoWhy not both? It was a poor usage of engineering effort to try and recreate a field, instead of leveraging some assets and building on what they actually had. It isn't like reader died alone. They had buzz going, which did a decent job of linking reader and Gmail. That is solid engineering. Instead, they have constantly tried to recreate Gmail to kill it. Wave? Plus? Inbox? I'm sure there are others.