[sarvinc]

I use RSS, Google Reader, and Reeder on my iPad/iPhone. Still I think it's fair to say that RSS is dead because the general public does not use it. Of course that's also a good reason to kill off G+. Google is killing Reader because they no longer see the benefit of providing the service or they get a benefit by not providing the service.

I would've been happy to pay for Google Reader. Truth is I'll move to another RSS service and be happy to pay. I'm not sure what it costs Goole to run Reader so this is all conjecture.