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Because before Google Reader was cancelled Google was known for not cancelling anything. Now they get rid of things left and right. It was basically the beginni
by bluedays 6y ago
Because before Google Reader was cancelled Google was known for not cancelling anything. Now they get rid of things left and right. It was basically the beginning of the end.
- kergonath 6y agoThat is not quite accurate. They’ve always killed stuff randomly. My personal issues at the time were Sparrow (an amazing email app on iPhone, killed when they bought the developer), Google Wave, Google Talk (they were already a headless chicken as far as IM was concerned; Google Talk was interoperable with other servers and we used it quite a lot), Google Video. Other notable cancellations before Google Reader were Google Buzz, Google Code search, Google Desktop, and Google Labs. There were dozens of others. They have always been as focused as a squirrel on drugs.
- corobo 6y agoOh man, I used to check labs so often. God damn Google became a proper fallen empire of a company 'eh
- smeej 6y agoTo this day I've yet to use any social media as much as I used sharing Google Reader articles on Google Buzz. My little circle of friends just caught the thing right at the right time, and we loved it hard!
- vkou 6y ago> Because before Google Reader was cancelled Google was known for not cancelling anything Web Accelerator, Wave, Google Video immediately spring to mind, but there's a few dozen smaller services that were all cancelled before Reader was.
- bluedays 6y agoI would argue that all of those were failures, so there was no reason to keep using them. So I guess the better argument is that at this time Google wasn’t known for cancelling successful products
- vkou 6y agoReader was a failure in the commercial sense, though. No good path towards monetization, no positive synergy with other products, too much technical debt that nobody wanted to work on.