The New Blogger Interface

This industry is contracting. Bloggers are getting fewer options to work with, not more, as time goes on, which might be one reason why Blogger has become so unresponsive to user concerns - monopolies or near monopolies can get away with being arrogant and the fewer competitors remain, the more arrogance the remaining competitors can get away with - or so goes the theory.

The scenario practically nobody at these companies seems to envisage is the one in which we practically all finally run out of patience, go "to H*** with this", remove our content from their servers, shut off our computers, and go out to enjoy the fresh air, leaving all of the competitors to slowly go bankrupt. I trust we all had lives before the Internet. With all of the time we end up investing in dealing with the willful insanity of the people working for our providers, do our real lives really benefit from this activity, I wonder. At some point, doesn't one end up asking oneself "if I took the time I've spent rebuilding things that some nitwit destroyed, just so he could show the virtual world what a big man he was, and spent that time elsewhere, out in the real world, what could I have achieved with that effort"?

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If this was true about the back-end interface, how much more relevant is it when we lose the front-end: Google Reader?