Apple is no longer the benevolent digital caretaker that once existed in the days of Steve Jobs’ Camelot, as proven by their current cheap ads, unimaginative products, and heartless actions. My blind friends loved RSS (and older OS X) for its predictable uniformity. I'd like to see Tim Cook use his iMac for just 10 minutes while blindfolded.
When trying to understand anything created by a large organization (corporations, religions, governments, etc.), especially when they make an apparently irrational move, always follow the money. Slapping one helpless person is heartless, but slapping 100,000 helpless people is good business if it nets a profit.
RSS was too much like having your spouse waking up before you do, saving only the good articles in a newspaper or magazine, and disposing of the ads and other tripe for you. From Apple’s perspective, and that of their morally vanquished allies, RSS eliminated potential revenue. Without it, you must wade through their barrage of advertising on webpages. This move to give you less information while completely consuming your valuable download data rate and desktop space with inane graphics is the digital equivalent of giving you 1.5 qts of ice cream in what used to be half gallon cartons at the same price. If my toilet paper gets any more “newer and fluffier with quilted pockets of air”, I’m going to scream. The next time you’re sitting there, paging through your analog People Magazine, compare the TPs paper tube with its holder’s spindle. More air, less substance, is far cheaper than trying to come up with a new idea. By eliminating RSS, Apple has removed the scissors from your early morning Sugar Bear’s fingers, and forcing you to waste your time downloading their soulless garbage.
While it is quite possible to imbed ads within articles, avoiding the morning scissors od RSS, these take extra effort on the publisher’s behalf, and still eliminates the potential revenue from the third party advertisers, such as Google with their “customized” ads. These people became billionaires by selling your information, their main source of income, and they don’t want to be cut out of this immense gold mine by your darling Sugar Bear before your first coffee.
Money. Always follow the money.
It’s funny to hear the uproar over 2 guys in 1 bed being a national threat, but total silence when big business (including health and gun industry), major religions, and law makers are the ones dangerously sleeping together behind closed doors. By removing RSS, Google can continue to sell us Preparation-H when THEIR thoroughly purchased Congress, once again, shoves it up our assertions.
