Originally Posted by
mooper
It's not just the cost of updates and support, but the opportunity cost of encouraging people to hang onto antiquated tools instead of moving to newer ones that are more integrated and profitable.
In this case, I think want people's RSS to be replaced by G+.
Most people will just move to an alternative reader, but I guess any additional G+ page views are revenue-positive.
Though clearly G+ has nothing to do with "profitable" quite yet.
