He outright says Google ruined the market: "I remember back when RSS was amazing and something you paid for. I also remember when Google Reader showed up and v

He outright says Google ruined the market: "I remember back when RSS was amazing and something you paid for. I also remember when Google Reader showed up and very quickly started taking over. It was free. It was Google (back before we were all scared of Google) and it wrecked the market for all of the paid RSS services." His last sentence: "This whole mess is just another example of why free is so often bad." I see what you're saying, that he thinks users are part of the mechanism, but the bottom line is he thinks this apocalypse can be traced back to Google Reader being free.