Google’s current “bet everything on social now because we missed the boat” movement feels a lot like Microsoft’s “bet everything on the internet because we missed the boat” movement in 1997.
Marco Arment — Google Reader redesign: terrible decision or worst decision?
Google Reader’s new web interface is unusable for me. Good thing I have Reeder (for now).
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I don’t get what everyone’s complaining about. It’s identical in terms of functionality, with a slightly different color scheme and a little more white space between items.
Whomever did the redesign did so to make it “look good”, rather than make it more usable. The new design makes the product less usable.