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Merits of whether Keep is comparable to Reader aside - I wonder how long we're going to be seeing the "...but Google Reader" refrain from pundits. The camps of
by duggan 14y ago
Merits of whether Keep is comparable to Reader aside - I wonder how long we're going to be seeing the "...but Google Reader" refrain from pundits.
The camps of opinion I've seen on how Google should behave:
1) Pundits: Support an increasingly burdensome array of fringe services which cost them more than they gain (in their opinion)
2) HN: Reduce their experimental forays and leave (for now) private/small companies to their niches.
3) Coders: open source the services when shuttering.
1 and 2 would seem anathema to Google - the next Facebook could be hiding in either the organizational lethargy created by the former or the failure to act on the latter.
3 is going to be prohibitively expensive or difficult depending on how the service was built.
I'm just not sure there's anything other than a lot of sound and fury in the future of these discussions, which makes them boring.
- raylu 14y agoCan I instead be in 4) whatever [0] As a user of Google Reader since too long ago to remember, I'm annoyed that I have to find an alternative but it also shouldn't be sparking a discussion about high-level, long-term Google strategy. [0]: http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/03/17/google-reader/ http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/03/17/google-reader/
- tomkarlo 14y agoReader generated a disproportionate media outcry because it was such a great service for news junkies - and reporters in general tend to be news junkies. The response was greatly disproportionate when compared to say, the shutdown of Posterous or even other Google service shutdowns over the years... I suspect because of human nature, where reporters assume that everyone else is like them and reads 100 publications a day. Open sourcing it sounds great, but folks are saying that with zero knowledge of what the service actually looks like under the hood. I can only think they're assuming it looks like a common web service stack like LAMP or rails or something that would actually make sense to anyone if they got the code.