Google Reader - A Product vs. A Symbol | Clay Allsopp

A Product vs. A Symbol Google Reader, the product, died and should serve as a lesson in missed opportunities. But the loss of Google Reader, the symbol, should be grieved for and contemplated with many furrowed eyebrows. Google Reader came out in 2005, before the iPhone, Android, and the ubiquity of smartphones. Before Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. It had a half-decade head start on Flipboard and Prismatic. But it became a dinosaur. It was a desktop web product living in an age where we consume  show all text

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