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.
That is so true. It's great to have a lot more options but Reeder and Instapaper alone justified buying the iPad.
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#43Earlier 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! ]
Isn't the Android ecosystem awesome?
I bet it is. There are probably a whole bunch of killer apps there which would never make it to the AppStore.
Grooveshark is one example that comes to mind.
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#44Big 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 thought he was referring to the built-in browser.
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#45Does anyone else find themselves wishing that Instapaper could intelligently pull multiple-page articles, like Readability does? You can of course solve the issue by finding the printer-ready version of an article (if there is one), but that extra step feels so unnecessary..
(aside from that quibble, love Instapaper and congrats on the great new release!)
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#46Anyone else annoyed by how the scroll bar in the Instapaper iPad app never seems to behave like you would expect a scrollbar to behave?
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#47Does anyone else find themselves wishing that Instapaper could intelligently pull multiple-page articles, like Readability does? You can of course solve the issue by finding the printer-ready version of an article (if there is one), but that extra step feels so unnecessary.. (aside from that quibble, love Instapaper and congrats on the great new release!)
Printful merges multipage articles into a single article. I don't have any promo codes right now, but email me and I'll send you one as soon as the next release is approved.
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#48Instapaper 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.
I have an app, called Printful, which kind of merges Instapaper and Reeder. Email me if you're interested in trying it, I'll send you a promo code as soon as the next release is approved.
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#49Looks Great! Marco Arment, developer of Instapaper, has a weekly podcast about iOS App Development called "Build and Analyze". Great resource for any level iOS hacker. http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze
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#50Out 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…
This model sounds like SimpleNote