Among my friends who work at Google and are avid consumers of RSS feeds, all hate Google Reader. In fact, I heard murmurs about how incompetent the Reader team is/was and how it's not up to snuff compared to other products.

I use it, but I hate it. I'm just too lazy to find something better and port my feeds over.

Really? I've been using RSS feeds for years over multiple apps/platforms and Google Reader has been, by far, the best.

Google reader gives me exactly what I want in an rss reader. I can't imagine switching... Like all things, you can't please everyone.

Out of curiosity, what's wrong with Google Reader?

My big problem with Google Reader is that I still can't use my Google Apps account with it on my Android device. WTF? This is a Google product on a Google phone accessing a Google service using a Google-based account and Google still can't make it happen?

Huh? My friends at Google tend to love reader and think of the Reader team as one of the better ones at Google.

I don't personally use it, but my impression is that it's generally a much beloved product internally.