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Ask Slashdot: Which Google Project Didn't Deserve To Die?
Nerval's Lobster writes "When Google announced the shutdown of Google Reader, its popular RSS reader, it sparked significant outrage across the Web. While one could argue that RSS readers have declined in popularity over the past few years (in fact, that was Google's stated reason for killing it), they remain a useful tool for many people who want to collect their Web content—articles, blog postings, and the like—in one convenient place. (Fortunately for them, there exist any number of alternative RSS readers, some of which offer even more features than Google Reader.) This wasn't the first time that Google announced a project's imminent demise, and it certainly won't be the last: Google Buzz, Google Health, Google Wave, Google Labs, and other software platforms all ended up in the dustbin of tech history. So here's the question: of all those projects, which didn't deserve the axe? If you had a choice, which would you bring back?"
opining that it's "great way to follow multiple websites" is of no relevance. it is NOT the way the two plus billion internet users do things. it ever was only a niche technology used by the geeky, including you, geek.
Ah, where would a Google story be without a Microsoft shill? Devil's advocate or not, your comment history shows a pretty obvious bias.
Meanwhile, iOS devices lose their magical ability to sync when iCloud goes down, and Windows Azure loses its ability to do anything when it goes down. Google Drive being down (per Google) or showing "sluggishness" (per your article) isn't any different. If somebody's moronic enough to store their important stuff on any cloud, I have no sympathy for them.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.