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But will people be unsatisfied with Reading List enough to bother looking for alternatives on the App Store? Non-Apple platform sync seems to be the biggest mi
by ChrisLTD 15y ago
But will people be unsatisfied with Reading List enough to bother looking for alternatives on the App Store?
Non-Apple platform sync seems to be the biggest missing feature, but what else is there that folks would pay for?
- msbarnett 15y agoFiguring out what else Reading List is missing that users would pay for is precisely what Marco is going to have to do. But that's where the broadened visibility will help significantly. With whole new classes of people discovering this category of App, wishing that it did X, and searching around for alternatives that provide X, he'll probably see an uptick in people asking him about features like X that he's in a far better position to quickly iterate around than Apple is.
- ChrisLTD 15y agoGreat point!
- dstone 15y agoOff the top of my head, the big ones are offline reading, keeps your furthest-read position (especially across devices), Kindle integration. I'd pay $5 for any one of those alone. The new features in 3.0 that Marco seems to think are the differentiating features are the ability to see friends' saved articles and editorial content. The editorial picks are pretty good, but nothing that you couldn't get with Reading List. The social integration works if you know people who have Instapaper. But those first three are really the nicest bits, in my opinion.
- Lazlo_Nibble 15y agoInstapaper also works from any browser on any platform. I don't see that happening with Reading list anytime soon.