Instapaper and Reeder are, for me, the 'killer' iPhone apps.
When people ask me why I like/choose the iPhone , I point at those 2 apps.
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#14>The iPad no longer uses the top and bottom gradient to fade the text out, instead opting for a clean shadow line borrowed from Reeder’s style.
Glad to see this. It was irritating to almost-but-not-quite see the first line of text as you scrolled, which sometimes meant you had to scroll back, which sometimes meant you lost your place, which sometimes resulted in hair being pulled out.
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#15Out of curiosity: Instapaper has had a decent amount of success by making stellar apps for iOS (Marco's only source of revenue outside of the "subscriptions", from what I understand). Is this a good strategy? Like, pick a single platform and make the integration as polished as possible? Or is it better to get cross-platform apps that aren't as polished (in a situation like Instapaper)?
What's interesting about Instapaper is that Marco is in a way moving towards embracing both models. With his "3rd-party access only for subscribers" model (see http://blog.instapaper.com/post/3208433429), he can focus on keeping the iOS app polished while letting third-party developers handle writing apps for other platforms. Assuming this actually happens (a big assumption, to be fair), non-iOS platforms will serve as a revenue source by driving subscriptions.
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#16Instapaper and Reeder are, for me, the 'killer' iPhone apps. When people ask me why I like/choose the iPhone , I point at those 2 apps.
Same here - I just wish that Instapaper would share on Google Reader.
One wonders why the "drink from the firehose" style reader (Reeder) hasn't been merged with the "save for later" style reader (Instapaper). Everyone I know who finds one of those indispensable becomes enamored with the other pretty easily.
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#17Instapaper and Reeder are, for me, the 'killer' iPhone apps. When people ask me why I like/choose the iPhone , I point at those 2 apps.
iPaper[1] is a great instapaper client for Android. Yeah, Instapaper is more like a service than an iPhone app.
[1] https://market.android.com/details?id=org.hijava.instapaper
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#18Instapaper is definitely the number 1 reason I use Twitter as my primary news source - and the integration to the Twitter iPhone app is perfect. Seems like a perfect potential acquisition.
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#19Instapaper and Reeder are, for me, the 'killer' iPhone apps. When people ask me why I like/choose the iPhone , I point at those 2 apps.
iPaper[1] is a great instapaper client for Android. Yeah, Instapaper is more like a service than an iPhone app. [1] https://market.android.com/details?id=org.hijava.instapaper
The icon is a direct copy of the iOS app icon, and the app is in violation of Marco's API rules (http://blog.instapaper.com/post/3208433429).
Outright theft? Maybe not. But definitely not kosher.
[ Also, the 'developer website' is an inaccessible Chinese social network page. Awesome! ]
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#20Instapaper and Reeder are, for me, the 'killer' iPhone apps. When people ask me why I like/choose the iPhone , I point at those 2 apps.
Same here. And then the person up I'm pitching the iPhone to is like, "Oh...cool." haha!
When someone asks what my favorite apps are, he is expecting me to tell him about the apps that use the accelerometer in some crazy innovative way. Oh, the look of disappointment when I excitedly talk about Reeder.