Google Reader goodbye

So the Google Reader is gone. Mourned by quite a few people on the Internet. I've seen many articles about it along with suggestions of alternatives. Google killed it because of low usage... Really, if there is so low usage when is there so many people missing it? Well even if Google killed it, it is still on your phone and not Google is not such tyrant yet to delete stuff on your phone. If this is no more updates to it that doesn't bother me as this fairly simple app needs no update. But alas, the app stops working, won't get new feeds!

Ok, what's a good alternative? I tried to look for one and gosh the Permissions on some of these are kinda scary: access to your memory card and everything. Download at your own risk. But there is a news/feeds app right from Google: Google Currents. This has more elaborate UI and works pretty well. (I need to learn how they do this scrolling UI, probably some Ice Cream sandwich feature)