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I actually read RSS feeds --- using the Currents application (which is supported by Google and under active development; it's getting updates) on my Android Nex
by tytso 14y ago
I actually read RSS feeds --- using the Currents application (which is supported by Google and under active development; it's getting updates) on my Android Nexus 10 tablet.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.currents&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC5hcHBzLmN1cnJlbnRzIl0 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and....
So for those people who claim that Google doesn't care at all about RSS, Currents is certainly a counter-example.
And by the way, Google is a big enough company that to claim that a corporation as a whole as an opinion about any subject or any protocol is a little silly. Take for example, "IBM Loves Lotus Notes; therefore IBM must hate SMTP." Absurd. There is a part of IBM that make a lot of money off of Lotus Notes, yes. There are also lots of IBM engineers and former IBM engineers who hated it with a hot blazing passion. I'm aware of one IBM division which supplied its engineers with a Lotus Notes-free e-mail address because it was necessary for them to do their jobs. Specifically, interact with the open source community with a mail product that wouldn't destroy whitespace in patches....
- kmfrk 14y agoMaybe Larry Page should write a public statement entitled "Thoughts on RSS".
- dinkumthinkum 14y agoI could be wrong but I'm not sure people would like the answer. If the reasoning is that Larry Page should write a statement to appease the tech intelligentsia; I'm afraid their actual motivations would be probably be more uncomfortable than the current situation. In other words, I don't think it is necessarily a long term statement about the technical viability of RSS (probably something more to do with protecting advertising revenue, but I don't know).
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoInteresting connection you made there. Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on Flash" was about moving away from proprietary tech towards open web standards. What Google is doing with RSS is the complete opposite.
- niclupien 14y agoWith which private technology are they trying to switch to ? I believe they are dropping RSS not replacing it.
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoGoogle+
- spinchange 14y agoThe fact that the alternative to Flash was an open standard was a convenient convergence of interests. Jobs disliked Flash and wanted to hasten obsoleting it. I have no inside information, but from reading the proverbial tea leaves and following his career, I think Sundar Pichai might have a similar prerogative and management style with respect to shedding things that are "un-Googley" Particularly things that run locally & sync with their services, e.g. Google Gears, Goolge Desktop, now CalDAV, etc.
- jfoster 14y agoEveryone (including Google) wants their own proprietary tech to be what's used, but no one (including Apple) wants to work with the constraints of other people's lousy properietary tech. If Apple owned Flash, they wouldn't have wanted to move away from it, and if Google didn't own Google+ they would probably be pushing RSS as an open alternative.