The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Post by bloodberet » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 1:36 PM UTC

The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment
itunes.apple.com

Re: The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Post by n0nick » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 2:21 PM UTC

Looks interesting. Finally, a use for the dreaded un-removable "Newsstand" icon on my iPhone.

Re: The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Post by janfoeh » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 2:22 PM UTC

Too bad it is iOS6 only, leaving my iPad 1 out in the cold.

Re: The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Post by noirman » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 2:25 PM UTC

janfoeh wrote: post #3

Too bad it is iOS6 only, leaving my iPad 1 out in the cold.

Wait, iPad 1 supports iOS6 no?

Re: The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Post by navs » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 2:27 PM UTC

I'd love to see this as a webapp. I'm one of those folks that just doesn't use apps or even sign in to my apple account. I'm sure more of my kind exist.

EDIT: Whoops I see this has paid in-app purchases. I wonder if there's something out there that can offer as seamless an experience as iTunes in-app purchases for webapps.

Re: The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Post by mikeevans » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 2:30 PM UTC

noirman wrote: post #4

janfoeh wrote: post #3

Too bad it is iOS6 only, leaving my iPad 1 out in the cold.

Wait, iPad 1 supports iOS6 no?

Nope.

Re: The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Post by creativityhurts » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 2:31 PM UTC

noirman wrote: post #4

janfoeh wrote: post #3

Too bad it is iOS6 only, leaving my iPad 1 out in the cold.

Wait, iPad 1 supports iOS6 no?

No, it doesn't. Marco has been talking a lot on his podcast about dropping support for the iPad 1 for Instapaper as well in order to use some of the new iOS6 features.

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Post by kitsched » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 2:34 PM UTC

creativityhurts wrote: post #7

noirman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, iPad 1 supports iOS6 no?

No, it doesn't. Marco has been talking a lot on his podcast about dropping support for the iPad 1 for Instapaper as well in order to use some of the new iOS6 features.

Wow, I didn't know he was planning to drop support for the 1st gen iPad. Bad news. :(

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Post by k-mcgrady » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 2:42 PM UTC

Interesting. First of all it's very nicely designed and after reading the introduction I like the philosophy behind it. Taking the Instapaper approach of focussing on text is interesting. While images and graphics can often enhance content having nice, plain text on a device the size of the iPhone makes much more sense. So first impressions of it are good. Hopefully the content is just as good.

Update:

After reading a couple of the articles it seems pretty high quality and justifies the price. It's also only the second good Newsstand app I've used (The New York Times is the other). I've tried several others and they are just 100's of space consuming images, difficult to read especially on the iPhone.

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Post by jasonlbaptiste » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 2:43 PM UTC

navs wrote: post #5

I'd love to see this as a webapp. I'm one of those folks that just doesn't use apps or even sign in to my apple account. I'm sure more of my kind exist. EDIT: Whoops I see this has paid in-app purchases. I wonder if there's something out there that can offer as seamless an experience as iTunes in-app purchases for webapps.

Someone should build a service on top of Stripe to do this.