I'm well aware of what happened. Making it paid was as good as closing it for a lot of the free services that were using it. The point was that a lot of people

I'm well aware of what happened. Making it paid was as good as closing it for a lot of the free services that were using it. The point was that a lot of people were upset about it when the closure was announced, and thus we can see that people have been getting annoyed at Google for closing things down since well before Reader was shut. This is counter to the claim of the Google employee above that everybody loved it when Google canned products before Reader.