I'm under the impression that Google Drive is a money-making enterprise. Reader was not. In light of that, my question wouldn't be whether this will be canceled, but would be how much you will pay for depending on access to this API when they decide to rationalize the rates.
Given how little effort Google puts into updating, bugfixing or providing any kind of support to those paying for Drive, I seriously doubt this is a money-making enterprise.
Drive hasn't really evolved since it was launched almost a year ago when everyone suspected it may be Google's long awaited DropBox-killer.
What are some evolutions you'd like to see? It seems basically feature compatible with dropbox, plus the added benefit of being able to edit documents in-place on the web. The only think that I want and it does not have is a fuse client for linux.
> being able to edit documents in-place on the web
Last time I checked only a handful of file types were editable in Drive. I can edit source files in Dropbox but Drive simply downloads them.
Drive's file manager is also very limiting while Dropbox's feels much more like a desktop experience. I can archive, unarchive, copy, paste etc. with ease.