It's not the RSS reader. It's the open publishing ecosystem. Most clients point to Reader as the central feed aggregator. Most publishers point to Feedburner a

It's not the RSS reader. It's the open publishing ecosystem. Most clients point to Reader as the central feed aggregator. Most publishers point to Feedburner as the central publisher. Google seized the commanding heights with Feedburner and Google Reader and captured all the publishers and the clients, and now they're killing the ecosystem. http://www.zdnet.com/embrace-extend-extinguish-how-google-crushed-and-abandoned-the-rss-industry-7000013025/ http://www.zdnet.com/embrace-extend-extinguish-how-google-cr... I don't see why they couldn't have integrated Reader into Plus without killing the ecosystem. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn are moving into news aggregation, and Google is killing a successful news aggregation system. I don't understand their strategy, but it's seems sort of like, we want everyone on G+ and we don't care how heavy-handed we look or how early adopters feel, and we don't want an open ecosystem that people can use to pipe content into Twitter and Facebook.