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Google killed their very nice (at the time) RSS product, Google Reader, so they could push people to Google+, their solution to compete with Facebook.
by thesuperbigfrog 5y ago
Google killed their very nice (at the time) RSS product, Google Reader, so they could push people to Google+, their solution to compete with Facebook.
- pphysch 5y agoI can see the rationale behind Google's (mis)judgment. Social media was steamrolling RSS in popular adoption, and seemed like the future. Sometimes, new technology does replace old technology. But there were a lot of issues with planning and execution.
- thesuperbigfrog 5y ago>> But there were a lot of issues with planning and execution. That's a very generous understatement: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134541/google-plus-privacy-api-data-leak-developers https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134541/google-plus-pri... https://www.zdnet.com/article/thanks-for-nothing-jerkface/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/thanks-for-nothing-jerkface/ https://mashable.com/archive/google-plus-history https://mashable.com/archive/google-plus-history