Google Reader will be retired on July 1, 2013

[Liquid]

Personally I am glad google is dropping it.

Google needs to stop trying to cover EVERYTHING and only focus on the things that matter. There are literally hundreds of readers that can do the same thing. Focus your attention on big things that nobody else can do.

A single developer can make a great reader app, music player, document viewer, and all that other shyt. Focus on improving Android/Chrome OS and everything else will take care of itself.

 

[StatUS]

Personally I am glad google is dropping it.

Google needs to stop trying to cover EVERYTHING and only focus on the things that matter. There are literally hundreds of readers that can do the same thing. Focus your attention on big things that nobody else can do.

A single developer can make a great reader app, music player, document viewer, and all that other shyt. Focus on improving Android/Chrome OS and everything else will take care of itself.

Are you saying they should drop Play Music and Docs too?

 

[Liquid]

Are you saying they should drop Play Music and Docs too?

Docs is fairly important given the way it works over the internet and I hope they improve on it. Would be cool if they kept working on that

I don't care about the music app tho. You can simply find an alternative to that in the play store.

 

[StatUS]

Docs is fairly important given the way it works over the internet and I hope they improve on it. Would be cool if they kept working on that

I don't care about the music app tho. You can simply find an alternative to that in the play store.

Not an alternative that lets you upload 20,000 songs to the cloud for free. Most other apps like it make you pay for storage or just access a remote drive.

I see what you're saying but the Music app is basically the default player these days anyway and if it allows extra content past the low storage these phones and tablets have there's no reason why they shouldn't countinue to work on that project.

 

[The Phoenix]

This REALLY hurt me mayne. How are they gonna do us like this. Fukk Goog set and that weak ass explanation. SMH.

 

[porque]

Personally I am glad google is dropping it.

Google needs to stop trying to cover EVERYTHING and only focus on the things that matter. There are literally hundreds of readers that can do the same thing. Focus your attention on big things that nobody else can do.

A single developer can make a great reader app, music player, document viewer, and all that other shyt. Focus on improving Android/Chrome OS and everything else will take care of itself.

there is no other reader that works the way google works and all the good stand alone readers depend on it

 

[69 others]

fukk and i just got done reorganizing and labeling my subscriptions

Personally I am glad google is dropping it.

Google needs to stop trying to cover EVERYTHING and only focus on the things that matter. There are literally hundreds of readers that can do the same thing. Focus your attention on big things that nobody else can do.

A single developer can make a great reader app, music player, document viewer, and all that other shyt. Focus on improving Android/Chrome OS and everything else will take care of itself.

i agree with you here but i think the reader was within their core competencies. it's a major destination and a portal to the internet for many and they could of eat off the contextual ads on it (after all google is an internet advertising company), but like many other good products from them they just didn't put that much effort in marketing it and getting it across to the masses.

 

[Liquid]

there is no other reader that works the way google works and all the good stand alone readers depend on it

Spoiler

 

[Family Man]

This REALLY hurt me mayne. How are they gonna do us like this. Fukk Goog set and that weak ass explanation. SMH.

My tablet just lost about 1/3 of it's usage I can't believe them nikkas is really doing this to us.

 

[He Who Posts Well]

I haven't used it in a while but when I did it was awesome. I don't see how they can retire google reader yet keep okurt around. It doesn't make sense.

 

[Spaceman Piff]

i guess it's time for me to learn how to twitter..

 

[porque]

Five Best Google Reader Alternatives

 

[porque]

anyone found a good replacement?

there's always the Diggs replacement but we dont even know what it will be like

Digg's Google Reader replacement expected to launch in beta next week | TechHive

 

[mannyrs13]

if you on Android check out flipboard, actually apple has it too . kinda similar to reader and it let's you customize how you want based on topics. you can even add social media on there and you can also add your reader feed too. i got that as one of my feeds. it's more user friendly than reader in that it's easier to navigate. atleast to me. just gotta know how to use it to your desire.

 

[porque]

if you on Android check out flipboard, actually apple has it too . kinda similar to reader and it let's you customize how you want based on topics. you can even add social media on there and you can also add your reader feed too. i got that as one of my feeds. it's more user friendly than reader in that it's easier to navigate. atleast to me. just gotta know how to use it to your desire.

nah that shyt isnt not close to the same thing

I do love Flipboard though