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Embrace, extinguish. They didn't need to extend, because virtually everyone using RSS was using their reader. In a way you could say they "extended" the reade
by zobzu 14y ago
Embrace, extinguish.
They didn't need to extend, because virtually everyone using RSS was using their reader.
In a way you could say they "extended" the readers, by providing a better one than existing ones. Better enough, that "nobody" cared to make a competitor, until it was clear it was going to die.
So yeah, it's close enough to embrace, extend, extinguish to me.
- icebraining 14y agoThe Microsoft extinction was of every product except theirs. The purpose of EEE was to eliminate the competition and capture all the market, and it's kind of hard to do that when you eliminate yourself. Not to mention, that we can not really say they extended the readers, because the extensions didn't make them incompatible and so prevented people from moving, like the EEE did. I'm glad people are losing some misplaced trust in Google, but let's not blindingly apply labels to this.
- spinchange 14y agoThe theirs in this case is Google+
- streptomycin 14y agoDamn Google+ and it's 98% market share for providing automatic notifications when a site updates its content! Wait, what?
- spinchange 14y agoI didn't say it was a suitable replacement. It's hardly an uncommon notion that they're trying to push people to Google+. Most of the behavioral defenses of killing Reader have to do with the fact that "social" won. (I disagree. Different use-cases)
- DannoHung 14y agoGoogle doesn't want people to post stuff on their own websites. They want you to post it directly in Google+