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Google Reader shutdown tidbits (2013)

# Based a lunch with Alan Green at Google on June 21, 2013. Posted on April 20, 2024, but backdated to the time that this was written in a private document.

It effectively sounded like they were going to be removing the GFE rules on July 1, and then take their time actually turning off any servers, since that actually involves understanding how things work and what depends on what. Wipeout (Reader is not compliant, data for deleted Gaia accounts is still present) was a slight factor, but if that had been the only reason, it still would have been easier to let it keep running. The idea was to take the opportunity of the new Pope being announced and Andy Rubin being replaced as head of Android, so that the Reader news may be drowned out.

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