From The Old Reader blog:

However, just because a technology is widely available does not guarantee success. What makes RSS truly powerful is that users still have the control. The beauty of the system is it that no one can force you to be tracked and no one can force you to watch ads. There are no security issues I am aware of and no one ever has to know what feeds you subscribe to. This may be the last area of the Internet that you can still say things like this.

Every few months, the topic of RSS being about to “die” pops up somewhere on the Internet and some publications run with it. While I don’t think that RSS as a consumer product will ever catch on at a large scale, I’m glad that the technology is still around and powering several of my favorite services and apps. And even if it doesn’t attract millions of customers, I think that the healthy ecosystem the demise of Google Reader created shows that there’s a niche willing to pay for RSS-based products.