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by kristoph on Mon 25th Mar 2013 20:58 UTC
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I don't mean to point out the obvious but a company of Google's size and resource can certainly afford to assemble a privacy team for a reasonably popular product.

I am not suggesting the article is untrue but I do think that, ultimately, what killed Reader was a lack a strategic value.

I am/was an avid Reader user - I used Reader through my apps though - and I actually almost never logged into the thing. I can't imagine Reader provided any value to Google and so it makes sense for Google to bin it rather then spending more cash on it.

On the other hand I think canceling Reader sends a real bad message to Goggle users. No way am I going to use their new note taking app now because if it does not make them enough money they will cancel it. In contrast Evernote is only about their note taking app and so I cam more confident that company will do everything they can to keep it going.

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