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Re:Chief Architect of Google+ requests clarification on Goog... by OGinparadise on Friday March 15, 2013 @03:34PM (#5382499)
Pretend for one yoctosecond that you work at Google, disagree with the decision to shut down Reader, and are in a position to try to make the product you're working on help fill the void.

So, Google would allow another team to create a clone of what they shut down after all these years? Their excuse was that they need to focus on fewer products

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Re:Chief Architect of Google+ requests clarification on Goog... by VikingCoder on Friday March 15, 2013 @03:50PM (#5382595)
Yeah, they could.

For one, Reader could be built on a very different set of APIs that makes it inherently difficult to maintain.

That's speculation, but it's certainly the kind of thing that has happened at every large company I've ever worked at.

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