I agree, Owen. I don't understand this strategy either. Can anyone explain how, once something is up and apparently solid, it requires a lot of money to maintain it?
All in all, Google seems to be trying to disassociate itself from its community(ies). I would be glad to pay for some of its apps and gadgets, but not if I can't count on them being around. -tj On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA<http://www.analyticjournalism.com/> 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) Twitter: jtjohnson http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] ==========================================
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