Apple's Upcoming 'Reading List' for Safari to Compete with Instapaper and ReadItLater

[dethmaShine]

http://www.marco.org/2011/04/30/lion-safari-reading-list

Thanks. To be fair, this was posted after my post.

But he refers to his 5by5 podcast there, so I guess you were right.

Thanks

 

[poseidon84]

Will the function make Safari snappier?

 

[rockosmodurnlif]

http://www.marco.org/2011/04/30/lion-safari-reading-list

I like that he's not panicked, I mean we remember all the mp3 player makers and smartphone makers who jumped out of windows (pun not intended) when Apple entered their market, but no one's seen the final implementation.

That said, Instapaper has a problem that the Reading List wouldn't have, it doesn't handle multipagination (for what I mean, look at Readability).

 

[0815]

ya, just from what we've seen so far, I'm not sure this is going to be as fully featured a thing as the 3rd party apps. cross-device syncing is a pretty big feature actually. so, it may help bring awareness to instapaper and readitlater. but we don't know the final features I guess.

Now if Apple includes MobileMe/iCloud syncing/centralization, it would be more worrisome.

cross device synching is the only feature that would make me want to use this - it would be pointless without it.

Does it save the page to be able to read it later offline?

If yes, that could be cool.

Spid

and this would be nice too ....

 

[RebeccaL]

I doubt Apple is that daft. This will probably be a Framework made available so that Firefox or any other browser can utilize.

That said, I agree that other services won't be going anywhere.

Highly doubtful considering Apple has not licensed larger and more robust technologies like Facetime.

This is a feature more similar to Opera's note function.

 

[steadysignal]

RIP Instapaper & Read It Later.

-1.

if you dont like the apps, dont use them.

and, unless readability is a component, apple's efforts will not be widely accepted by content providers.

 

[pluto24]

How about allowing us to read iBooks on the computer, Apple?

You can read iBooks on a computer using any ePub reader.