Google Reader Shutting Down? Am I wrong to be so dependent on Google?

Google is shutting down Google Reader effective July 1st, 2013.

Google Official Blog: A second spring of cleaning

I realize they were not charging me for it (I'd gladly pay).
This particular one (given the nature of my blog) is really, really painful to me.
They have raised all sorts of uncertainty in my mind.
Is Blogger safe? How long will they give me if they shut down a paid service?
At least in my mind, they just made me reassess the virtues of cloud computing.

This was a major usage of my Chromebooks. Am I going to have to go back to a "real" laptop?

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Strange, Possibly Humorous News

Bear spray-armed thieves rob Vancouver Apple Store


A "Fair and Balanced" tablet?
News Corp to launch a 10 inch Android tablet for schools/students


Amazing ‘How guys will use Google Glass’ parody hits the web

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Google News

A good example of how Google+ is different from Facebook:
Introducing Art Talks on Google+


Google and Amazon are headed for a major clash (see this Android News post for another example).
Amazon Prime may be undercut by Google’s own shipping service


Google begins offering vague estimates on secret FBI surveillance


Is Google rebranding things "Google"?
Android Is Dead (Long Live Google)

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ChromeOS News

Linus Torvalds really likes Google's Chromebook Pixel


Linus Torvalds is making the Chromebook Pixel his primary laptop


The secret origins of Google's Chrome OS


How I survived 7 days in Chromebook exile

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Android News

This has a number of articles of interest to developers.


Smartphones projected to overtake feature phones for the first time in 2013


Android fragmentation predicted to squeeze out independent developers


Google and Amazon are headed for a major clash (see this Google News post for another example).
New Amazon API takes on Google for Android ad dollars


The Evolving Economics of the App


Android To Be 58 Percent Of App Uptake


What Smartphone OS do You Use?

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Apple News

It's funny, all three of the significant Apple news articles are about Apple and a competitor.
Apple has ceased to make news.
[There was some news (really just speculation) about an iWatch, but as everyone else is doing one too and there were no actual facts, I omitted it.]

The Author doesn't mention them, but this is the best argument I've seen for Chromebooks:
Browsing Web on iPad stinks, and Apple likes it that way


Mac users are finally realizing just how far iOS is behind Android:
Five features iOS should steal from Android


Miguel de Icaza leaves Linux Desktop for a MacOS Desktop:
Gnome cofounder: Desktop Linux is a CHERNOBYL of FAIL

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ARM-based Servers

Up to now, it has largely been talk, but this one is supposed to ship next quarter.

HP's ARM servers to get Texas Instruments chips

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