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by dwyer
4250 days ago
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I understand it, I just don't buy it. Reader was a great opportunity to apply machine learning. When left neglected to a couple of days, my feed reader becomes a huge pain to sift through. There's a lot of room for innovation in this space, a la Inbox. I'm not accusing Google of anything, but their treatment of Atom/RSS can be likened to Microsoft's old Embrace/Extend/Extinguish strategy. I honestly believe that in some ways it's worse off now than it would've been had Google not got involved. Killing Reader was at worst malicious and at best irresponsible. |
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1. Kills RSS - forces people to receive updates from people / blogs / companies you want to follow in email.
2. Wow, that inbox is looking pretty messy - we should help clean it up!
3. We made a nifty little app to help keep your inbox clean (and filter out those annoying companies you used to subscribe to via RSS).
4. Our customers like their inboxes clean - so if you're a company and you want to talk to your customer - you better pay for a spot.
RSS + Email were dumb pipes. Google's doing everything in it's power to control those pipes either y eliminating them (RSS) or using their near-monopoly to shift people to a new standard (gmail/inbox). Now, this is all smart on their part, but not necessarily great down the road for consumer or companies.