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Big 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 c
by peterbraden 16y ago
Big 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 'sharing cool stuff' space, which is already over saturated, instead of concentrating on it's original stronghold of providing a great consumption experience.
- st3fan 16y agoThe bookmarklet is completely optional. No?
- haribilalic 16y agoI don't think the bookmarklet is going away, but even if Marco did get rid of it, the free API would allow anyone to come along and make a new one.
- ilovecomputers 16y agoI thought he was referring to the built-in browser.
- precipice 16y agoMarco has mentioned before that the bookmarklet is his biggest support headache. If the current bookmarklet is working for you, there's little reason to take that away; but having some other way for people to get a good experience from Instapaper -- something easier that anyone could use without knowing what a bookmarklet is -- makes tons of sense. He does kill features from time to time, but he always seems to mention that those features were very lightly used. Presumably that's not the case here (since otherwise it has been hard to make the app valuable, before this new feature).