Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry
Back in 2009, when NewsGator surrendered to Google, I wrote this:
[S]elfishly, I’m glad Google has won. It’s the default online RSS reader, and I think they’ve done a fine job with it. I can still use FeedDemon and NetNewsWire on Windows PCs and Macs respectively.
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In the bigger picture, I hate being beholden to Google for yet another service where they can watch what I do and who I watch. But I’m willing to trust them, just as I’m willing to trust Microsoft on many issues.
Fool me once…
Perhaps, but this final sharp turn to bulldogging the users into the G+ corral is not working. Initially I was peeved, but frankly, as Google’s ethical eutrophication accelerates perhaps being thrown out to find new pastures is good.