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Why Google is Killing Google Reader: Blame Google+
- InclinedPlane 14y agoClassic strategy tax behavior. It looks like Google may be well on its way to becoming Microsoft 2.0.
- rachelbythebay 14y agoIf your project can be shot in the head to make room for some VP's darling, even if yours already exists, actually works, and has happy users, expect to see a red laser dot appear sooner rather than later. Time will pass... then... boom. Another dead project.
- yuhong 14y agoAt least it is not as bad as the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-px00307-and-dr.html http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-...
- yanw 14y agoBlogspam. I'm fed up with this blog, they somehow manage to hijack every news item even though their posts read like something a drunk child wrote. Source: former PM speculating on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Google-Reader-Shut-Down-March-2013/Why-is-Google-killing-Google-Reader https://www.quora.com/Google-Reader-Shut-Down-March-2013/Why...
- danoprey 14y agoWouldn't an intermediary phase (6-9 months) of having it integrated in to G+ before killing it have been a smarter move in this case? I check Reader daily, often several times, and never check G+. That would have guarenteed that I, and I suspect most of you, had opened G+ every day and there would have been some spillover...
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