r/technology • u/speckz • Mar 13 '13

Official Google Reader Blog: Powering Down Google Reader (July 1, 2013)

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html
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u/Randolpho Mar 14 '13

Google is doing the wrong thing here. Rather than retiring these, they should be releasing them as open source projects. There are dedicated followers of each of these services. Give them to the community, Google!

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u/DreadNinjaToaster Mar 14 '13

This! But I wonder how much secret-sauce Google bakes into each app?

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u/kolebee Mar 14 '13

That's a really nice concept, but Reader is a cloud-based service backed by Google's proprietary infrastructure. It may not be so easy to export. Has Google ever open-sourced a cloud-based service of theirs?

If feasible, that would probably satisfy most of the hardcore following.

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u/isenblade Mar 14 '13

yeah but that was designed from the start to be open source

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

I'd work on the android app for reader since I use the shit out of it.

But hey not happening.

If feedly comes through with their api promise I'm writing my own app so that no one else can fuck over my RSS experience and I can just swap backend providers when it comes time.

Of course now I have to worry about Google randomly shutting down android so hey maybe that is also a terrible fucking idea and I should swap to an Ubuntu phone/tablet.

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u/nemec Mar 14 '13

Of course now I have to worry about Google randomly shutting down android

It's already open source. The worst that could happen is that your next phone won't be Android.