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Re: Instapaper 3.0 is here

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Post by jacobbijani »

billjings wrote: post #16
statictype wrote: post #11

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.

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.

They're probably great because they're both only focusing on one.

Re: Instapaper 3.0 is here

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Post by starnix17 »

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #26
redacted wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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! ]

Interesting... Which Api Rules does it violate btw?

API access requires a subscription account.

Re: Instapaper 3.0 is here

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Post by guywithabike »

kanamekun wrote: post #23

I love the idea behind Instapaper and bought the $5 version, but I have found it has a surprising number of bugs for a paid app. The application has crashed several times on me. Sometimes articles don't download properly. Also, often large swatches of text are repeated in the articles I add to my Instapaper. Finally, when I archive items out of the Editor's Picks, they often re-download again later (maybe I am not un…

I've seen Instapaper crash maybe twice, ever, and I've been using it since it came out. I'm a fairly heavy user. Maybe I'm just lucky?

If you still have issues with 3.0, you should get in touch with Marco. Maybe something's out of whack server-side?

Re: Instapaper 3.0 is here

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Post by st3fan »

peterbraden wrote: post #27

Big fan talking here, it's how I primarily read long form content (iphone and kindle) This sentence worried me though: >With these great new additions, many customers won’t even >need the bookmarklet anymore. Without the bookmarklet Instapaper stops being useful to me - I have no interest in another source of information, however 'social' or curated that may be. I feel that instapaper is trying to move into the 'shar…

The bookmarklet is completely optional. No?

Re: Instapaper 3.0 is here

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Post by haribilalic »

peterbraden wrote: post #27

Big fan talking here, it's how I primarily read long form content (iphone and kindle) This sentence worried me though: >With these great new additions, many customers won’t even >need the bookmarklet anymore. Without the bookmarklet Instapaper stops being useful to me - I have no interest in another source of information, however 'social' or curated that may be. I feel that instapaper is trying to move into the 'shar…

I don't think the bookmarklet is going away, but even if Marco did get rid of it, the free API would allow anyone to come along and make a new one.

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Post by ryanwatkins »

lazerwalker wrote: post #15
shantanubala wrote: post #8

Out 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…

Have any apps other than Stacks for WP7 been built to this subscription only API?

Re: Instapaper 3.0 is here

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Post by larrywright »

redacted wrote: post #19
DanielRibeiro wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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! ]

Isn't the Android ecosystem awesome?

Re: Instapaper 3.0 is here

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Post by kenjackson »

kanamekun wrote: post #23

I love the idea behind Instapaper and bought the $5 version, but I have found it has a surprising number of bugs for a paid app. The application has crashed several times on me. Sometimes articles don't download properly. Also, often large swatches of text are repeated in the articles I add to my Instapaper. Finally, when I archive items out of the Editor's Picks, they often re-download again later (maybe I am not un…

Have you reported the bugs?
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