Alternative petition to defend Google Reader: CrowdFunding!

Dear friends!

I hasten to share an alternative proposal in defense of Google Reader.

As you know, after Google announced the closure of Reader, supporters of the latter made several petitions, which tens of thousands of users have already subscribed to.

Petition 1.

Petition 2.

I signed up for both, but!

After all, it’s necessary to understand that in these petitions we ask Google to continue spending a certain amount (I think, seven figures per year) for:

1. the content of the developers and the application support group (separately web, separately mobile, etc.);

2. a piece of cloud storage of user databases and part of the data center capacity (hosting, etc.);

3. well, and the design team itself, without it ...



In general, there is a suspicion that petitions with requests to continue spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on us just like that - will be ignored. From the point of view of business, in the era of total economy and crisis, the Reader is not interesting, it does not pay dividends.



From here the following proposition naturally follows.

Let's make a new petition - with a request to sell the Reader, or to compensate for some of its content at our expense.

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Let's offer Google Crowdfunding!



I, for example, do not mind spending 100r on Reader. in year. or even more.

And judging by the number of petitioners who have already signed the petition, there will be 45-50 including, which also are unlikely to refuse to pay a small amount to save their usual morning coffee for the usual news feed.

Let's try!



For Crowdfunding for Google Reader, you can vote here.

Translation of the petition:

Dear google

we do not want to ask why you decided to close the Reader. I guess you had a reason. Most likely financial, related to the support of the application, not bringing tangible profits.

But thousands of people every morning open the Reader to find out what is happening in the World, to expand their horizons, to get information on their interests - to become smarter. We humans do this to become smarter, to make smarter people around us. And this is the main purpose of Man - knowledge and perfection, mercy and love. an educated person is strong with these qualities, and this is his main weapon. To one day come to work at Google X and create a new unique product for people who will make them smarter, stronger, happier.

And there is no better application than Reader, with the same functional, convenient and minimalist interface.



So, we do not want to know the reasons why you close the Reader.



We ask you to sell us our favorite application.

Or let us compensate you for his further work and support.

We love you, Google, and we want to help you.

Give us the price.