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This is really weird. > Its creators are also inspired by Google Reader’s recent demise What does a demise of a Google product has to do with another totally

• garry 14y ago
  Google Reader is a social service that was free. Google is a company that makes a lot of money, just not on that thing. The product was added to a "projects to cut" list in an email by a Google executive, and the next day it was axed. Twitter bought Posterous for the talented team. A year later, the service is axed. This is why things like Newsblur or Posthaven should exist for certain types of socially valuable purposes -- it's a paid service that won't go away. Because, well, money.
  • webwanderings 14y ago
    Your argument notwithstanding but there is no proof, or solid precedence, of a paid service surviving just because it is a paid service. Google did not say (at least not publicly) that they're cutting GR because the service wasn't generating revenue.