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The "move seamlessly across devices" feature has me wanting to try it at least. If it was possible to start typing a HN post on your phone then finish on your l

by harryf 14y ago

The "move seamlessly across devices" feature has me wanting to try it at least. If it was possible to start typing a HN post on your phone then finish on your laptop, for example, that would be really cool. But a chrome killer? I doubt it. To kill chrome you'd need a far more compelling use case. To me the biggest problem on the web right now is there's too much to read. In fact there's an Amazon killer here too. It's never been so easy to own a lot of books but it's getting harder and harder to read them.

ktizo 14y ago
The browser interface is ripe for disruption (the whole UI space is, really), but whether yahoo will do it remains to be seen. Personally I am pretty doubtful, although they do have the resources.
birch25 14y ago
With ebook readers on your computer, tablet, phone, and dedicated (and cheap) ereaders I don't see how anyone could say that books are getting harder to read. It may be so easy to buy them that we are developing backlogs, but that is a problem of self control. There is a ton to read on the web right now. The current solution is to use a service like Instapaper, Readability, or Pocket that saves articles and renders them in a pleasurable format to read later. If you want that built into the browser, look no further than Safari which introduced "Reading List" in version 5.0 (the new version in Mountain Lion has offline reading as well). Opera has also announced they will have a feature like this in their next major release. There's always room for disruption. Firefox used customizability and standards compliance to disrupt IE's market. A few short years later Chrome used speed to disrupt IE and Firefox's market to become the most used browser in he world. Who will be next? I don't know, but I'm skeptical that Yahoo is the company who will do it.
- harryf 14y ago
  > With ebook readers on your computer, tablet, phone, and dedicated (and cheap) ereaders I don't see how anyone could say that books are getting harder to read. I expressed myself badly. The act of reading has never been so easy I agree. What I meant was when was the last time you finished a book? Or just got something meaningful out of a book? How about when you bought a book and never even started it? The problem being there's an oversupply of excellent books all just a download away but never enough time to read them. This is a problem we should be solving.
  - jsolson 14y ago
    Make time. I finish a few books per month. My parents manage to read a couple books per week (and managed it when I was a good deal younger and they were both working 40+ hour weeks). Read on the bus. Read on the can. Read before going to bed. There's plenty of time for reading, even if you've got an otherwise busy and active life.

by harryf 14y ago

ktizo 14y ago

The browser interface is ripe for disruption (the whole UI space is, really), but whether yahoo will do it remains to be seen. Personally I am pretty doubtful, although they do have the resources.

birch25 14y ago

With ebook readers on your computer, tablet, phone, and dedicated (and cheap) ereaders I don't see how anyone could say that books are getting harder to read. It may be so easy to buy them that we are developing backlogs, but that is a problem of self control. There is a ton to read on the web right now. The current solution is to use a service like Instapaper, Readability, or Pocket that saves articles and renders them in a pleasurable format to read later. If you want that built into the browser, look no further than Safari which introduced "Reading List" in version 5.0 (the new version in Mountain Lion has offline reading as well). Opera has also announced they will have a feature like this in their next major release. There's always room for disruption. Firefox used customizability and standards compliance to disrupt IE's market. A few short years later Chrome used speed to disrupt IE and Firefox's market to become the most used browser in he world. Who will be next? I don't know, but I'm skeptical that Yahoo is the company who will do it.

harryf 14y ago
> With ebook readers on your computer, tablet, phone, and dedicated (and cheap) ereaders I don't see how anyone could say that books are getting harder to read. I expressed myself badly. The act of reading has never been so easy I agree. What I meant was when was the last time you finished a book? Or just got something meaningful out of a book? How about when you bought a book and never even started it? The problem being there's an oversupply of excellent books all just a download away but never enough time to read them. This is a problem we should be solving.
- jsolson 14y ago
  Make time. I finish a few books per month. My parents manage to read a couple books per week (and managed it when I was a good deal younger and they were both working 40+ hour weeks). Read on the bus. Read on the can. Read before going to bed. There's plenty of time for reading, even if you've got an otherwise busy and active life.