This is why I think it was shortsighted for Instapaper to reject outside funding. As much as I like Instapaper, it is very much still a single-platform app with very limited scope (text-only), and the app hasn't been updated in several months. Meanwhile its competitors (like Readitlater and now these guys) are getting funded, rolling out features, and attacking this market with much greater resources.
Marco has actually stated that he has 4.0 pretty much ready to ship as soon as iOS 5 comes out. However due to being built against the 5.0 SDK he can't release it any earlier than that.
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This is why I think it was shortsighted for Instapaper to reject outside funding. As much as I like Instapaper, it is very much still a single-platform app with very limited scope (text-only), and the app hasn't been updated in several months. Meanwhile its competitors (like Readitlater and now these guys) are getting funded, rolling out features, and attacking this market with much greater resources.
Marco has actually stated that he has 4.0 pretty much ready to ship as soon as iOS 5 comes out. However due to being built against the 5.0 SDK he can't release it any earlier than that.
I'm a big fan if Readability. I guess, no matter what, there are lots of options.