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FWIW, he backed off that pretty quickly. He claimed it was for Shift Jelly only and his words got misconstrued as a public challenge.

• sjs382 15y ago
  Wow, really? Source?
  • Flenser 15y ago
    Update at the end of the blog post rsynnott linked to
• Tyrannosaurs 15y ago
  I'm not sure that update supports the claim of back tracking. That was an update after the original piece (sadly not dated) but I think it's more sensible to assume that the update was written in response to Shift Jelly reading it and contacting him, rather than him being in discussion with them before writing it. Certainly I'd think it would be a very odd piece to write if he were already in talks with Shift Jelly. The piece certainly implies that that there would be discussion around the project ("the details of which we’d work out privately" in relation to the functionality) rather than him thinking that people would just start coding and then come to him with a finished article so it reads more naturally as a clarification than something more radical.
• batista 15y ago
  No, he didn't (backtrack). He said, in the original statement, that he challenges anyone to make on, and he will call it "the official Instapaper app for Android" He probably didn't expect many takers on the offer, but when they emerged it became OBVIOUS that this couldn't happen with more than one taker --only one could be the "official app for Android"), so clarified it with him picking only one to proceed with.