Google ran Reader for 8 years. Incidently, I bought a Mac Pro which Apple dropped support for any hardware older than late 2008. I could not get Mountain Lion f

Google ran Reader for 8 years. Incidently, I bought a Mac Pro which Apple dropped support for any hardware older than late 2008. I could not get Mountain Lion for my Mac Pro, even thought there was no real reason why it could not run it from a performance stand point. As a result, I switched my main desktop from a Mac Pro to a Ubuntu Linux. Neither Microsoft nor Linux aggressively drop old hardware off the face of the earth like this. Apple, with its $100 billion in cash couldn't afford a few resources to continue supporting perfectly working hardware? They essentially deprecated my $4000 computer, because some of the commercial software I used only shipped newer updates on Mountain Lion. (and before you trot out the 64-bit EFI/Graphics Driver excuse, keep in mind both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux can be installed on this old machine and take full advantage of it, including up-to-date drivers. Apple makes many times more profit than Microsoft, and yet can't fund appropriate support for their full line of HW) Point being, I was a paying customer, and I still got ditched. Apparently, it is not enough to merely derive revenue, it has to be large amounts of revenue. Hence, Apple stiffs the "Pro" market. Google could have made money from Reader, but the reality was, too few people were using it even though it was free. Lesson: if you are a niche community, you can get screwed, Apple, Google, it doesn't matter. And by the way, many apps were kicked out of the app store for having links in them which lead to a page where you could purchase something through the web browser.