Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation

Post by xinsight » Thu, Apr 28, 2011, 8:55 PM UTC

dkarl wrote: post #74

dkarl wrote: post #59

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To all app developers, please don't give up on Android. If your market is educated middle class folks -- i.e., if you don't sell games and fart apps -- then give us a chance to start showing up in the Android market. Most of us bought iPhones back when they were clearly superior, and we are unwilling to throw away a couple-hundred-dollar piece of electronics that works perfectly fine. The new line of Android phones l…

Okay, what bias did I run into here? Not everyone who is excited about Android is going to immediately shell out a few hundred bucks when they already have an iPhone. For me, that's enough money that I think about how to spend it, and new gadgets usually lose out to other priorities. Does that make me a bad nerd or something?

Post by ameyamk » Thu, Apr 28, 2011, 10:02 PM UTC

Post by swombat » Thu, Apr 28, 2011, 10:33 PM UTC

lukifer wrote: post #73

Xuzz wrote: post #66

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As someone who works on software for jailbroken phones, I just want to make it clear that jailbreaking and piracy are not the same thing. Yes, jailbreaking makes piracy possible, but Cydia has multiple warnings about adding the repositories required for piracy. In fact, our best statistics show less than half of all the jailbroken devices have pirated an app. I agree with your points, but I don't want people to misun…

You seem like you might be a good person to ask: I love the idea of jailbreaking all my devices (I did so on my 1G iPhone as soon as it was possible). However, modern-day Cydia scares the bejeezus out of me. I have no easy way to discern what's reliable, let alone trustworthy, and I wish I could know what's getting installed under the hood, especially regarding background processes and changes to the underlying OS. C…

Post by samatman » Fri, Apr 29, 2011, 12:44 AM UTC

JonLim wrote: post #43

patio11 wrote: post #36

I second, third, and fourth the notion about pathological customers. iOS is practically training a generation of them. I'm glad they are far away from me.

Many of my friends own iPhones, and many are flabbergasted when they find out that my phone is not jailbroken nor is it filled with free apps. I happily pay for quality apps. Why? It's going to cost me anywhere from $1 to $10, and that is honestly chump change for an app that will provide much more in value. For some reason, if you give away your work for free, all of the cheapskates and losers come out and start ins…

Post by thematt » Fri, Apr 29, 2011, 1:22 AM UTC

lukifer wrote: post #73

Xuzz wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who works on software for jailbroken phones, I just want to make it clear that jailbreaking and piracy are not the same thing. Yes, jailbreaking makes piracy possible, but Cydia has multiple warnings about adding the repositories required for piracy. In fact, our best statistics show less than half of all the jailbroken devices have pirated an app. I agree with your points, but I don't want people to misun…

You seem like you might be a good person to ask: I love the idea of jailbreaking all my devices (I did so on my 1G iPhone as soon as it was possible). However, modern-day Cydia scares the bejeezus out of me. I have no easy way to discern what's reliable, let alone trustworthy, and I wish I could know what's getting installed under the hood, especially regarding background processes and changes to the underlying OS. C…