I agree that this is the ideal of how to shut down a product, but I don't believe you're being fair with Google. They provided everything you could ask for in t

I agree that this is the ideal of how to shut down a product, but I don't believe you're being fair with Google. They provided everything you could ask for in their announcement of Google Reader's retirement[1]: 1. Sympathy with users who still use Reader. 2. A simple way to save all data to transition to another product. 3. A three month sunset, which they are not obligated to give. You're right in that this announcement is missing one little line about alternatives to Reader. But there's two reasons why I don't think that matters - first, the explosion of alternatives mainly happened after that announcement, when alternatives like NewsBlur really came into mainstream knowledge. Secondly, Google doesn't really need to suggest alternatives when there's a sunset. Sure they could, but you could also just google it (no humor intended). You have three months to find it on your own, I think I can forgive them for not suggesting alternatives that in my opinion weren't even as mature as Reader yet (with the possible exception of Feedly). [1]: http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-googl...