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>>I may just have forgotten them, though (2005 was a long time ago). Yeah, good point :-) There was Bloglines. It is still there, only difference being - it's
by fakeer 14y ago
>>I may just have forgotten them, though (2005 was a long time ago).
Yeah, good point :-)
There was Bloglines. It is still there, only difference being - it's a ghost town now.
There used to be FeedDemon's own sync and now FeedDemon is jumping into the pyre with Reader.
It's been long and I am out of example. Maybe others will bring some.
But thing in this way - "because when the company launched Google Reader in 2005, its free price tag undercut and then virtually destroyed the market for competitive products."[1]
Thing this way - what about an startup that wants to enter hosted mail(web mail too) and they won't because of GMail. The same can be said about IM(for personal use; not those dev chat apps), Forum(Groups?), blah. And Google has good reason to kill them too.
[1]http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/03/19/this-is-what-pisses-me-off-about-google-reader/ http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/03/19/this-is-what-pisses-me...
- tomkarlo 14y agoThe same could be said when they started Google - at the time Altavista was dominant in search. If you're that easily dissuaded, you shouldn't be in startups. There's almost always an existing solution to the problem you're trying to solve.
- pessimizer 14y agoAltavista wasn't an arm of one of the most powerful, valuable, and influential companies on earth.
- tomkarlo 14y agoNo, but at the time, the Internet was also about 1/100th of what it is today and Altavista was still worth about $3bn. It's hard to picture now, but back in 1999 Altavista and Yahoo were towering giants online.
- res0nat0r 14y agoAV was spawned by researchers from DEC in 1995 a full 3 years before Google came on the scene. I'd say Google was the severe underdog at the time.
- adestefan 14y agoBloglines killed themselves when they tried to redesign into a Digg competitor instead of a feed reader.