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Re:Chromecast with Google TV by tiz_io on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:51PM (#24642994)
Yes. But also no. RIP Reader.
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Re:Chromecast with Google TV by falcolas on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:22PM (#24643371)
Probably didn't help that there wasn't an easy path to monetization for Reader.
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Re:Chromecast with Google TV by mbreese on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:26PM (#24644090)
Huh? If Google didn't want to charge a fee for use (which doesn't seem to be how Google works), then they could easily have inserted their own adds into the RSS feeds. Or had an ad bar in the Reader interface.

It seems like Google of all places would have been able to figure out how to support that with ads.

I just don't think that they wanted to. It didn't fit into how they thought people would be interacting with the Internet in the future, and I can't say they were all that wrong...

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Re:Chromecast with Google TV by tehlike on Thursday October 01, 2020 @02:22AM (#24647930)
Too small of a product for google scale. See my other comment in this thread.
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