People will keep making fun of Google for this as long as Google keep throwing products at the wall that they don’t intend to keep supporting.
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Besides. It almost sounds like many people would like them to stop releasing products all together. Market research is not yet at a point where you can predict if something will be 100% successful.
I'm not saying I have a perfect solution that would satisfy everyone. But, in the case of Reader or Inbox, for example, I think that they could keep the business going with about a couple of cents from every user. I feel that a company with as much power as Google should really do more to stay on its users' good sides.