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Re:Standing Up For Android by bigiain on Thursday December 08, 2011 @01:22AM (#3327977)
I'd happily pay $2.99 (or $4.99 or maybe even more) for a great Android Instapaper app over using "save pages for viewing later offline". The reason being that Instapaper deals with multi-device sync properly for me. For me, the real "magic" of Instapaper is being able to bookmark interesting looking articles on my laptop before I leave home in the morning, read some of them on the iPad at a cafe on the way to work, read/bookmark some more in gaps at work on my work machine, and skim through articles on my phone while in the queue at the bank or post office... As a mobile developer, I alternate between a few phones, and I really miss the Instapaper iPhone client when I'm carrying an Android device...
Re:Standing Up For Android by eavc on Thursday December 08, 2011 @02:23AM (#3328142)
I wonder how far off that functionality is given Android's new syncing with Chrome.
Re:Standing Up For Android by comex on Thursday December 08, 2011 @05:21AM (#3328525)
And iOS syncing Reading Lists with Safari via iCloud...

Lots of little walled gardens in the clouds.