@zens @WClayFerguson@fosstodon.org @wilw

Unless you're Google leadership you can't be 100% sure what was in their heads when they decided to decommission Feedburner and then Google Reader.

I'm just pointing out that their actions - acquire and then kill popular services - was consistent with their business strategy, and as demonstrated by the marco.org article from 2013 that was widespread interpretation at that time.