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Doing it as an iOS app like this also prevents you from doing "Share to Pocket / Readability" like you would be able to with a website -- keeps you from scrapin

Doing it as an iOS app like this also prevents you from doing "Share to Pocket / Readability" like you would be able to with a website -- keeps you from scraping the content out of the publishers site.

duck 14y ago
Ironic, eh?
- greedo 14y ago
  Yeah, he should actively support his competitors... And that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...
  - ryanwatkins 14y ago
    There was no suggestion above to add Pocket or Readability support to the iOS app, just that by picking iOS, he chose a distribution platform that keeps apps much like his own from scraping the content. If all publications worked this way, Instapaper couldn't exist.
  - Kylekramer 14y ago
    Why not support them? Pocket/Instapaper/Readability support is pretty much a given in most content apps these days. And blocking others from your content definitely goes against the spirit of Instapaper. It is reminiscent of Microsoft's strategy tax. Making a product worse cause it may harm your other businesses.
smackfu 14y ago
It sure does have a Share to Instapaper button though.