[LINK] 'The End of Google Reader ...'

[David Boxall]

On 14/03/2013 7:41 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:
> [Serious Question:  How long will it take Google to overtake
> Microsoft's record for the most failed business lines in the history
> of the world?
> ...

IIRC, Google's model is to have a go, then abandon what doesn't work. In 
that spirit, Reader was more of a nice try than a failed business line. 
Come to think of it, if they didn't charge for it, can it be called a 
business?

I reckon Google's way, though messy, gives a chance to ideas that might 
otherwise never see the light of day.

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