{"id":467502,"date":"2010-03-24T17:17:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/?p=42832"},"modified":"2010-03-24T17:17:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:17:41","slug":"instapaper-coming-to-the-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/467502","title":{"rendered":"Instapaper Coming to the iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cRead Later – \u23184\u201d. I live my life by it. I find an interesting article but have no time to read it \u2013 \u23184. A crazy-long message in Gmail that\u2019s just perfect for, um, \u2018bathroom reading\u2019 \u2013 \u23184. Pretty much anything that demands attention but can wait until I\u2019m curled up in bed at the end of the day? \u23184.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s all this \u23184 stuff about? Why, that\u2019s my browser shortcut to\u00a0Instapaper<\/a> by Marco Arment. Instapaper strips the text out of almost any browser page and stores it for later reading; for me, that\u2019s usually via the Instapaper Pro app on my iPhone.<\/p>\n

And now Arment brings us Instapaper for the iPad. I\u2019ve never been more excited! On the Instapaper blog yesterday<\/a>, Arment wrote;<\/p>\n

I\u2019m probably supposed to keep this secret and build everyone\u2019s anticipation to hype this up. Oh well. Maybe I\u2019ll do that for the Instapaper edition for Apple\u2019s next revolutionary computing platform.<\/p>\n

First: Instapaper is definitely coming to iPad.<\/p>\n

Second: Instapaper is coming to iPad very soon. Possibly even on day one \u2014 yes, I\u2019m going for it \u2014 but that\u2019s optimistic.<\/p>\n

Third: Instapaper Pro will be a universal iPhone\/iPad application. That means that you only have to buy Instapaper Pro once to have it on both devices, and the iPad edition will be available to all Pro purchasers at no additional charge when it\u2019s released.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/span>
\nYou know that joy we all felt when Apple announced Snow Leopard would be super-duper-cheap? Remember the way you smiled when you heard the news, and felt a warm glow inside? That\u2019s how I feel about Instapaper Pro on the iPad. I think I even went \u201cSquee!\u201d when I read Arment\u2019s post. (I was alone, so no one knows I made a fool of myself. Oh, wait\u2026)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Arment adds;<\/p>\n

It looks like Instapaper Pro, but bigger, and with slight interface tweaks and redesigns where appropriate.<\/p>\n

When everyone else was stalling their iPhone development for months in order to redesign entire applications for the iPad, I made the obligatory cardboard prototype and mocked up a bunch of radical interface departures.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, none of them were very practical. Some worked well, but only with ideal content (which, in practice, is rarely the case except in the Editor\u2019s Picks folder). And I didn\u2019t want to commit to any huge risks because I don\u2019t have an iPad to test them on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that\u2019s the hurdle many iPad developers currently face. Any developer will agree it\u2019s important to be in the iPad app store as close to Day One as possible, but all app development and testing is horribly crippled by the \u2018little\u2019 fact that no one has an iPad yet<\/em>. Emulators and simulations are all very well and good, but nothing beats having the real thing to hold in one\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

Supersize<\/h3>\n

What might seem like a great design decision or function implementation in a simulator may not work in \u2018real\u2019 life, on an actual hold-it-in-your-hands-and-swipe-with-your-fingers iPad. There\u2019s a big difference between how we interact with a computer monitor, and how we interact with a magazine \u2013 and the iPad is the mongrel offspring lovechild of the two. (You know what I mean.) Truth is, no amount of cardboard dummy iPads and on-screen simulations will provide the same tactile feedback and degree of first-hand quality control offered by an actual iPad.<\/p>\n

Some developers are no doubt hoping that the iPad’s super-size function (by which apps designed for the iPhone are displayed at more than double their original size on the iPad) will keep customers happy until they can get a real iPad and spend time properly (re)developing their apps for it.<\/p>\n

So why didn\u2019t Arment just let Instapaper Pro run in that supersize, double-pixel mode? After all, content in Instapaper is mostly text. No worries about pixelated graphics there, right?<\/p>\n

Wrong. Arment fired up Instapaper in his iPad simulator. The result?<\/p>\n

It sucked, and it was completely unusable by my standards\u2026<\/p>\n

While I could have taken the conservative option and waited until a month or two after the iPad\u2019s release before launching Instapaper for it, an iPad without native Instapaper Pro is not a device I want to own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Me neither. And, if early reports are accurate, neither will a lot of other people for whom the iPad is, for the most part, a reading device. According to a report<\/a> today on TUAW, a comScore poll of prospective iPad customers revealed that 37 percent said it\u2019s likely<\/em> they\u2019ll read books on the device; 34 percent were more certain, saying that they would<\/em> use the iPad for reading magazines and newspapers.<\/p>\n

For those of you, like me, who are using Instapaper heavily every day, the iPad is like a dream come true and I can say with certainty that catching up on all those \u23184\u2019d articles and web pages will be what my iPad is used for most often. And for the 34 percent of iPad customers-in-waiting, Instapaper (and the inevitable copycat apps that follow) will make the iPad just about the only<\/em> screen from which we\u2019ll want to do any<\/em> reading, ever<\/em> again.<\/p>\n

Related GigaOM Pro Research:<\/strong> Evolution of the e-Book Market<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\n<\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cRead Later – \u23184\u201d. I live my life by it. I find an interesting article but have no time to read it \u2013 \u23184. A crazy-long message in Gmail that\u2019s just perfect for, um, \u2018bathroom reading\u2019 \u2013 \u23184. Pretty much anything that demands attention but can wait until I\u2019m curled up in bed at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}