Looks like that's tuned for actually news and magazines and such. (Or can you feed it any RSS feed you like?) Funny, perhaps, that only a tiny percentage of the RSS content I consume actually falls into that category; off the top of my head I can only think of a couple (like FAE Magazine, and really that's just "the new issue is out!", not articles and news items).
Google is supporting things that make them money.
Hence my remark wondering if "decline in usage" amounted to "finally fell below this threshold we set for how much money it had to make for us." Even if it was just barely below and there are still, numerically speaking, a lot of people using it (as they even acknowledge, "a loyal following").
The increase in mobile use has been a major boost.
Not that Cel and I are part of that crowd :P We just bought an LG Extravert this past weekend because it was on sale cheap at Fry's we were finally fed up with not having a full-keyboard phone, and this was one of only a couple models where Verizon would transfer our pre-paid, pay-as-you-go plan to (we are not monthly fee, contract, data plan people), but it's still not what you'd call a "smartphone". We have a tablet (original iPad) since he won it in that raffle a few years ago, but it's not 3G so we're still not the "internet anywhere, all the time" user it seems they're trying to cater to.
When I first heard about this last December I looked into some of the alternatives and did not like any of them. Despite its visual design flaws (and there is a Greasemonkey script for that), Reader did it for me in terms of functionality and UI in a way nothing else did. argh.
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Date: Mar. 14th, 2013 06:12 pm (UTC)From:Google is supporting things that make them money.
Hence my remark wondering if "decline in usage" amounted to "finally fell below this threshold we set for how much money it had to make for us." Even if it was just barely below and there are still, numerically speaking, a lot of people using it (as they even acknowledge, "a loyal following").
The increase in mobile use has been a major boost.
Not that Cel and I are part of that crowd :P We just bought an LG Extravert this past weekend because
it was on sale cheap at Fry'swe were finally fed up with not having a full-keyboard phone, and this was one of only a couple models where Verizon would transfer our pre-paid, pay-as-you-go plan to (we are not monthly fee, contract, data plan people), but it's still not what you'd call a "smartphone". We have a tablet (original iPad) since he won it in that raffle a few years ago, but it's not 3G so we're still not the "internet anywhere, all the time" user it seems they're trying to cater to.When I first heard about this last December I looked into some of the alternatives and did not like any of them. Despite its visual design flaws (and there is a Greasemonkey script for that), Reader did it for me in terms of functionality and UI in a way nothing else did. argh.