Good by Google Reader (which I use a lot):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371725
.. and a host of others in this year's Spring Cleaning
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html
I will give them this: they have an export stunt, and I apparently can move
to others. I don't use the google front page they killed off, Yahoo
instead.
But seriously, does anyone have a crystal ball? I just can't figure Google
out!
- Are they consolidating? .. i.e. converting everything to G+?
- What's next to go? .. Google Docs? It gets use by digerati, but few
others.
- Is GMail safe? .. It gets a lot of use, but its easy to scrape off the
ads, so can't be a profit center.
I'd certainly pay for many of google services .. although I doubt this
would stop them from randomly killing off ones I care about.
Is there some obvious trend, like I mentioned above, for example .. moving
everything to G+?
Damn!
-- Owen
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