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Dec. 4th, 2012 05:36 pmGah. Google is retiring not only iGoogle, but Reader. Reader! Losing iGoogle is an annoyance because I like it, but I depend on Reader for so much of my daily internet intake. I've experimented with Thunderbird and dedicated software and so far I just don't like any other solution. (I don't like the various "whitespace is good, let's add as much whitespace as possible" design decisions Google's made about Reader etc. either, but there's a Greasemonkey script for that.) What on earth am I gonna do?
It boggles my mind that this decision would seem to imply Google thinks people don't use/need RSS anymore (or at least not enough to justify maintaining a service for it). I was confused enough about this with iGoogle, but at least there, the question of "how do they think I'm getting this content instead that I don't need this anymore?" had the short, vague possible answer of "apps." Do they think people aren't sending out content by RSS anymore? (Like, I dunno, every Blogspot blog Google hosts...) Or is it that they think people aren't bothering to subscribe to RSS feeds because the masses are getting updates some other way? But in that case, what is the expected vector...? (And even if it's "Twitter" or "Facebook"... the content has to get there somehow, and how else if not by rss?)
It boggles my mind that this decision would seem to imply Google thinks people don't use/need RSS anymore (or at least not enough to justify maintaining a service for it). I was confused enough about this with iGoogle, but at least there, the question of "how do they think I'm getting this content instead that I don't need this anymore?" had the short, vague possible answer of "apps." Do they think people aren't sending out content by RSS anymore? (Like, I dunno, every Blogspot blog Google hosts...) Or is it that they think people aren't bothering to subscribe to RSS feeds because the masses are getting updates some other way? But in that case, what is the expected vector...? (And even if it's "Twitter" or "Facebook"... the content has to get there somehow, and how else if not by rss?)