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I follow several dozen RSS feeds to keep current on new webcomics, music, podcasts, fashion and more. I can't imagine a proprietary alternative ever replacing my RSS feeds. His point about the 1% power users it completely accurate. Most readers of social news sites and online news in general have no idea how important RSS is for propagating the content they are presented with.
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- His point about the 1% power users it completely accurate. Most readers of social news sites and online news in general have no idea how important RSS is for propagating the content they are presented with.
Agreed. I can see why Apple and Google want to remove RSS and instead push their own proprietary versions, but the universality of RSS is a big part of its success. This move really isn't a good thing, IMO. It's like railroads moving from a standard gauge rail towards their own specific rails. It's one thing to make web services. But it's another to make the web itself a service. Without universal platforms, innovation will lose out to energy spent on fighting over marketshare.
"If RSS is dead, JSON is the logical replacement. APIs are always going to be around, and this is exactly what they're for. An API allows the same features of RSS, but with a more lightweight container format and a backend that supports more targeted queries." - From comments