Originally Posted by
mooper
From Google's perspective, it is a good move if it leads to increased profits. RSS feeds are waning in popularity and it isn't a profitable venture for them. Social media technologies are becoming increasingly adept at disseminating news, so it makes a lot of sense from a business perspective for Google to encourage users to go that direction.
Google is becoming more like Apple all the time. Refuse to provide services that folks want/need to force them into something that benefits Google (like Apple did with Flash). Rather than innovate, Google stops innovation in order to foist something on folks that benefits their elimination of privacy (by building a dossier & tracing folks) and attempts to drive revenue.
Look at last week's news that they have blocked ....... Plus from the Google Play market. Congrats, Google, by doing so, you have caused me to move to Firefox Mobile, which despite a few shortcomings allows me to easily use ....... Plus on my mobile browser.