Bad News Google - Google Reader Edition

Well, there is some news for Google recently. And for most of us, not good news.

Google Shutting Down Google Reader:
Google announced March 15th that they are shutting down Google reader. This means that you will have to download all the subscriptions that you had in Google reader by going to the Google Takeout and downloading all your data. Google says that the reasoning behind shutting down this feature is that the usage of this service has been declining, and that they want to dedicate the power of the service to other products they offer that are popular. (Most likely YouTube, Gmail, Gtalk, and the Google Play Store). With that said, their are many other RSS readers out there, and Google is giving you the 3 month grace period to find another. I personally like using RSS reader software. But that's beyond the point.
One common misconception of Google closing the Reader platform is that Feedburner is going too. This is NOT true... For now. Because of the Google Reader platform closing, this may mean bad news for Feedburner. This is not for sure, since no actual statistics about the service are released, but it is a very similar platform, and has to appeal like other Google Applications, since it looks nothing like Google, and its not as visually appealing as services like Gmail, Google Code, or this platform for example. (Blogger) Which leads me to believe that Google is not putting any staff on it, since the launch of Google Plus. Which took most of the staff away from good products like Feedburner for example, and put them on teams in Google Plus.

My opinion of the Shutdown of Google Reader is that Google is making a bad and good decision, I don't know the details on how much resources Google Reader takes up, but I know that Google has more than 1 million servers at their disposal, but me learning the other day that just the user accounts for YouTube take up around 12 TB of data. And that was back in 2011 without the space taken up by the videos alone. So obviously, server space might be needed by Google. But I personally love Google with more and more products. I have signed up for every product Google has created. I would rather have slow Google products, than few Google products. Google is just making their fans mad.