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And it strikes me as outrageously naive to accept this theory on its face.
by jrm4 3y ago
And it strikes me as outrageously naive to accept this theory on its face.
- EVyesnoyesnoyes 3y agoThere is no reason at all to assume that the blog post was put in place to put google reader in a better light. And the original comment is weird anyway. Google had billions of views with and without google reader. The normal person doesn't use a RSS Reader at all. Even in my nerdy / tech group not everyone uses one. Feedly apparently hast 15 million users across the world.
- jrm4 3y agoI think there's very good reason to look past one blog post, people, come on. If I am a higher-up executive in Google, I'm not going to much care what the numbers on RSS look like now, it takes less half a brain to understand that Google Reader has at least a CHANCE at chewing into the bottom line hard if it takes off -- even if those chances are slim. I'd kill it quickly as possible. If I can do so early, with little fanfare, even better.
- wasteduniverse 3y ago[dead]