Oh, that's simple. Take me for example: I never used Google Reader. I used Google Reader a lot. Thing is, I never used GR on my desktop, FeedDemon was always

Oh, that's simple. Take me for example: I never used Google Reader. I used Google Reader a lot. Thing is, I never used GR on my desktop, FeedDemon was always a better experience. But on the go (in that short time it was available) I wanted to have the same feeds and, of course, the same un/read statuses. And Google Reader was a perfect sync service first and good enough RSS reader second. Sure, there were a lot of attempts at that time, but... Feedly, which was pushed as the best great thing after sliced bread^W^W GR didn't run good on my RAZR (if at all, I think I abandoned it when it started to sat down on the loding splash) and there were no desktop version. Other apps (which names eludes me) were no better, at least for me. And the most important part is what they lacked the integrated sync what was available to you as a Gmail (sic!) user, so it was some other sync provider, if at all. So for a short time when there were no king the RSS lost a lot of it's momentum for the consumers of the feeds. Some years later the alternatives matured, but the time of RSS has gone. People moved to podcasts, Twitter and whatever and RSS was no longer even a necessary tech to implement. [0] http://feeddemon.com/ http://feeddemon.com/