[RKearney]

I think the point jreed91 was trying to make was that Google announced the shutdown of Google Reader pretty far in advance, giving the developer of Reeder more than enough time to update Reeder to support something else.

Instead, Reeder was pulled off the App Store and more or less disappeared. Reeder was also sold all the way up until the day Google Reader shut down.

[jasonpbecker]

Of course, the developer did make an update to the iPhone version which had already been rewritten that worked with a few services with easy APIs to transition to.

And of course, the developer had been deep into a complete rewrite from scratch on OSX and iPad when the announcement was made and this created a whole new architectural challenge to probably the only part of the app that wasn't going to be complete rewritten.

And of course, then Apple announced iOS7 with a completely different UI and whole new language for how users interact with the app.

While I am spoiled by more highly communicative developers such that Reeder's relative silence frustrates, the reality is the context makes the delay quite understandable. Even now, people are wondering why the whole thing wasn't redone again to be iOS7 only. Having used the product, its even more clear why it took this long.

A few months with only an iPhone version has stunk. But those who were willing to pay the original $10 price on the iPad version in the first place are folks who live in RSS and are willing to pay for the best reading experience out there. Silvio has provided that in spades.

It's actually kind of remarkable how well his app works on iOS6 considering the whole UI/interaction paradigm feels exactly like I expect iOS7 only apps to be like.