Marco Arment Previews Instapaper Pro for iPad, Discusses Development Quandary Ahead of Device's Launch

[vahooka]

I agree that Universal apps are a way to go for most navigation based apps. That is apps that use default Apple UI elements. For games it's more problematic but surely beneficial as well.

The Instapaper app is quite good so it's a good news that it's coming to iPad. But I would like to be able to save entire webpages (or websites for that matter) with the whole layout and images. That would look really great on iPad. I tried couple or other apps but with mixed results. Web Offline app looks very promising as it saves everything and it has a great UI. I hope it will be released for iPad soon as well.

 

[617arg]

I wonder if I will have to re-buy the software I have on my iPhone if I were to buy an iPad. I thought one of the big selling points of the iPad was that thousands of apps are already ready for it. This sounds like they will all suck until/unless they are re-written...........

 

[blackcrayon]

I wonder if I will have to re-buy the software I have on my iPhone if I were to buy an iPad. I thought one of the big selling points of the iPad was that thousands of apps are already ready for it. This sounds like they will all suck until/unless they are re-written...........

You'd want apps to be rewritten for free? I think a large portion of iPad customers may already be iPhone or iPod Touch customers... If every iPad conversion were free it would mean a lot of development effort (depending on the app) for not much reward in these cases.

 

[lionheartednyhc]

I just started using this yesterday, on the iphone, but there is one thing I can't figure out. Some web page articles that are long have parts of them magically disappear when sent to the app. For example, this one: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/03/ff_masterthief_blanchard/all/1 cuts off right before the picture when viewed on the app.

Also, when articles are broken up into multiple pages only the first page is displayed in the app (understandably) but the links to go to the next page disappear in the app.

Am I missing something?

 

[marksman]

I think he should wait until he can test it and get it right.

Since he seems to care about the quality of the user experience, so much so he does not want doubling pixels to be it, why not wait a week or ten days or so to get it right.

The App Store is not really designed for quick throw it out there with quick updates over and over. The sooner most of the developers realize that the better off all of them will be.

He should share his plans with his customers and let them know where he is at, and most will be more than happy to wait a few days for him to make sure it works the way it should.

I suspect if he polled his paying customers most would be fine with a delay to make sure the first version works well.

 

[applesupergeek]

Nice, lot's of blah blah about nothing, so a native ipad app will be better, and it will have few bugs at launch, big news, who would have imagined...now can you tell us what the app actually does?

 

[applesupergeek]

I wonder if I will have to re-buy the software I have on my iPhone if I were to buy an iPad. I thought one of the big selling points of the iPad was that thousands of apps are already ready for it. This sounds like they will all suck until/unless they are re-written...........

nah don't worry this is just scare monging plugged articles courtesy of mr, to justify higher dev. prices. It's the same os, very similar sdk, and if you don't re-imagine or redesign the app, it's a piece of cake to port it to the ipad.

 

[Nitromaster]

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I've only used instapaper a few times , to test more than anything. However it being available in ipad form means
a) yet another reason I really want an ipad.
b) Guess I'll be getting instapaper pro soon

 

[Alchematron]

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I've only used instapaper a few times , to test more than anything. However it being available in ipad form means
a) yet another reason I really want an ipad.
b) Guess I'll be getting instapaper pro soon

Reasons for an iPad keep piling up

 

[Nitromaster]

Wirelessly posted (Nokia N70-3 Ireland-Opera: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16)

Wirelessly posted (Nokia N70-3 Ireland-Opera: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16)

I've only used instapaper a few times , to test more than anything. However it being available in ipad form means
a) yet another reason I really want an ipad.
b) Guess I'll be getting instapaper pro soon

Reasons for an iPad keep piling up

Yup
I think I have a list somewhere...
instapaper would mean the wifi only model could possibly be viable for me...I'll probaly just buy the too end one on impulse anyway

 

[debudebu]

Anyone know if the Ipad Instapaper has the "tilt-scroll" like the Iphone app?