As Instagram and others that have mastered the form have shown, relentlessly removing performance obstacles is a key to increasing user satisfaction.

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Leap Motion has radically multiplied the amount and precision of interaction data a user can produce by removing the physical object interacted with.

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Removing Google Reader rips a hole in the center of an active user's online life.

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"While removing search results is inconsistent with Google's mission, providing no information (or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information) is more inconsistent with our mission, " the company said in a statement.

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