[Luis Dias]

First you closed iGoogle, and you told me to rely on Google Reader. Now you are closing Google Reader?!?

****.

[Fury]

Pretty much my words exactly from this morning. **** you google. There are alternatives, but none that work seamlessly in both browser and WinPhone. Well okay, there are but they're all using google reader API.

As soon as I find an alternative that has WinPhone app, I will also make it a point to move my mail to outlook.com. Better now than when they announce they will close gmail in three months, right?

****ing google.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

First you closed iGoogle, and you told me to rely on Google Reader. Now you are closing Google Reader?!?

I switched my RSS feeds to Thunderbird recently. I find it quite convenient (of course, your use case may differ).

Pretty much my words exactly from this morning. **** you google. There are alternatives, but none that work seamlessly in both browser and WinPhone. Well okay, there are but they're all using google reader API.

... Windows Phone? I can't help but wonder why?
As for the mail servers, MS may not be quite as reliable as you'd like. And Google's spam filters are way better. My brother uses Hotmail, he gets flooded constantly - I haven't seen any spam outside my Gmail spambox for a long time...

[Apollo]

I'm no expert but I've heard that Windows Phone 8 is actually pretty good.

[Mika]

I wish everybody else luck with their cloud services as well - this is sort of the reason why older people have been very reluctant on cloud based stuff

[Nuke]

i didnt spend hundreds of dollars on computer hardware to run software on some server somewhere.

[perihelion]

i didnt spend hundreds of dollars on computer hardware to run software on some server somewhere.

Pretty much this.  My sympathies to every that gets bit by this, but you'll have to pardon my schadenfreude.

[Fury]

i didnt spend hundreds of dollars on computer hardware to run software on some server somewhere.

It is incredibly convenient to access stuff on any device with internet access, anywhere. Without having to waste time to sync data between these devices. In case of google reader, you can start reading news in the morning on your home computer after waking up. On your way to work you can continue reading on your phone where you left off or on your work computer at work. Why would I want to be limited to my home computer or waste time to do syncs between these devices?

I switched my RSS feeds to Thunderbird recently. I find it quite convenient (of course, your use case may differ).

See above.

... Windows Phone? I can't help but wonder why?

Prejudiced much? WinPhone8 is really good. Would be a lot better if developers would actually get off their asses and port their Android/iOS apps to WinPhone.

[Fury]

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-in-the-clear-to-add-google-caldav-support-to-windows-phone-7000012633/

So first Google dropped support for EAS, forcing Microsoft to quickly put together CardDAV and CalDAV support in their apps. Now Google drops support for (open protocol) CalDAV in favor of their own proprietary API?

What the **** Google?

[Fury]

Right, I decided to move away from google where possible. Grew tired of them killing services that I use.

GMail --> Outlook(.com). Moving old emails over from GMail is easier than I thought it'd be. Next I should go over all my accounts to change their email addresses. GMail is already forwarding everything to Outlook.
Google Reader --> Most likely Feedly, as they have replacement API well underway and the plan is to allow current Google Reader API clients to easily plug into their new API when it is ready. Until that API is ready, I'm stuck with Reader unless another service decides to publish WinPhone app first.
Google Chrome --> Comodo Dragon, its based on Chromium like Chrome. Extensions from Chrome's webstore work, as does built-in sync. Does not have built-in flash and pdf plugins though.
Google DNS --> Comodo DNS
Google search --> Not sure, Google still gives more or less better search results than competition. Probably will use Bing from now on as primary search.

[Luis Dias]

i didnt spend hundreds of dollars on computer hardware to run software on some server somewhere.

Pretty much this.  My sympathies to every that gets bit by this, but you'll have to pardon my schadenfreude.

You aware that Google Reader isn't exactly a cloud storage service, right? Just wondering if your schadenfreude isn't completely ignorant and misplaced.

[Mongoose]

I'd never even heard of Google Reader before this, so I guess I'm not losing anything myself.

[General Battuta]

I wish everybody else luck with their cloud services as well - this is sort of the reason why older people have been very reluctant on cloud based stuff

I wish older people luck with figuring out what a cloud service is

[Mongoose]

I don't think my grandmother even understands what a computer is.

[Nuke]

im convinced that young people dont know what a computer is either.

[Polpolion]

im convinced that young people dont know what a computer is either.

To be fair that's one of those things where 99 times out of 100 people would be able to correctly identify something yet still not give a proper definition for it. Not a huge deal since 99 times out of 100 it doesn't matter.

[BloodEagle]

im convinced that young people dont know what a computer is either.

My thoughts on today's youth roughly parallel your own.

[Fury]

And now Google has gone and deleted their own RSS extension for Chrome from Chrome store. And I was using that extension too. Thank you so ****ing much, Google.

At the rate this **** is going down, I'm guessing it won't take long for websites to begin abandoning feeds. The idea scares me. I use feeds to follow news from many different websites. Use of twitter or facebook isn't even on the table, because these websites put together provide maybe around 300 news per day. It's impossible amount to follow using twitter or facebook, which provide no means to keep track of read and unread items or any sort of bookmarks.

It saddens me that many people don't even know about feeds and how damned convenient they are to follow large amount of news in one place without visual overload.

**** this ****, seriously.

Edit: This was fourth or fifth thing Google has killed that I've been using. Just to clarify where I'm coming from for being so pissed at Google.

[LordMelvin]

Hmmm... "Feedly," you say...

[watsisname]

im convinced that young people dont know what a computer is either.