[kanzenryu2]

Google reader was killed because there was only one guy who knew how to support it

[thibaut_barrere]

If anything, this adds meat to the fact it can be understandable that people do not trust Google with products longevity.

Bus factor et al. is literally CS 101.

[troupo]

And that is a problem for a company with 20k employees?

No, Reader was killed because it:

- was free

- didn't contribute to revenue growth from ads

[creesch]

> And that is a problem for a company with 20k employees?

It is for a company where the promotion culture rewards new initiatives and products and doesn't reward people maintaining products. Which was most certainly the company culture around the time reader was killed.