> but they were (for the most part) right And yet here we are, discussing things on a platform that is very akin to the web that Reader advanced. There was alw

> but they were (for the most part) right And yet here we are, discussing things on a platform that is very akin to the web that Reader advanced. There was always going to be a market for non-Web 2.0 social media junk, albeit smaller. And frankly, trying to copy already successful iterations almost always fails (Google+). The resources that would have been required to maintain or even update Reader were minimal-- they were already wasting money on far more expensive dead end projects that were never going to make money.