The ceaseless whining over Google Reader is getting tiresome - I don't think there's been a Google-related post in the last week that had discussion actually related to the article.
Google took a zombie out back and double-tapped it. You can download your data. You have plenty of alternatives eager for your business. Move on.
A lot of Google's business is based on our trust. We have to trust them as a company, and we have to trust their ecosystem if we're going to invest our time and data into it. If they consistently violate that trust, shouldn't we get at least a little upset?
We also have to trust them to shed dead weight or they will turn into a bloated whale that is never able to produce anything of quality. They gave plenty of warning time and have made it very easy to easily export our data.
Google took a zombie out back and double-tapped it. You can download your data. You have plenty of alternatives eager for your business. Move on.
http://xkcd.com/1172/