Is an interesting thought experiment. In one stroke Google could wipe out a large tent pole for the RSS eco system. Wouldn't that effectively make RSS dead?
Not only do people use Google Reader as means to read RSS,
way to many RSS Readers use Google Reader as the crawling infrastructure for there app.(Newsblur being a notable exception). So killing google reader would pwn a large number of apps.
After the main support is gone, why would you build RSS into your product at all? Can RSS, that is propped up by one tenuous pole, last forever?
Probably people who are using RSS will switch to some alternative client/reader and learn an important lesson about relying on "free" services.
why would you build RSS into your product at all?
The problem RSS is trying to solve, being informed about new articles (and remembering which ones you've already read), still needs some alternative solution. Neither twitter nor facebook are providing one.
I think as long as there is no superior way to keep up with different sources of information, RSS will stay alive.
Is an interesting thought experiment. In one stroke Google could wipe out a large tent pole for the RSS eco system. Wouldn't that effectively make RSS dead?
Not only do people use Google Reader as means to read RSS, way to many RSS Readers use Google Reader as the crawling infrastructure for there app.(Newsblur being a notable exception). So killing google reader would pwn a large number of apps.
After the main support is gone, why would you build RSS into your product at all? Can RSS, that is propped up by one tenuous pole, last forever?