I actually read RSS feeds --- using the Currents application (which is supported by Google and under active development; it's getting updates) on my Android Nexus 10 tablet.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and....

So for those people who claim that Google doesn't care at all about RSS, Currents is certainly a counter-example.

And by the way, Google is a big enough company that to claim that a corporation as a whole as an opinion about any subject or any protocol is a little silly. Take for example, "IBM Loves Lotus Notes; therefore IBM must hate SMTP." Absurd. There is a part of IBM that make a lot of money off of Lotus Notes, yes. There are also lots of IBM engineers and former IBM engineers who hated it with a hot blazing passion. I'm aware of one IBM division which supplied its engineers with a Lotus Notes-free e-mail address because it was necessary for them to do their jobs. Specifically, interact with the open source community with a mail product that wouldn't destroy whitespace in patches....