The next generation of Instapaper

Re:The next generation of Instapaper by abdophoto on Thursday April 25, 2013 @06:18PM (#5610291)

It absolutely had something to do with it. I don't think anyone would say that Instapaper is 4x better than Pocket ($3.99 vs Free). If anything Pocket has clearly made a name for itself with better design and its new Pocket for Publishers API. I think Instapaper saw its peak about 6 month - 1 year ago and with The Magazine doing well, it was smart of Marco to sell it off in my opinion.

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Re:The next generation of Instapaper by bonaldi on Thursday April 25, 2013 @06:24PM (#5610322)

Instapaper's parsing is 3x better at least. Very often I see Pocket lose chunks of articles over innocuous divs.

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Re:The next generation of Instapaper by zw on Thursday April 25, 2013 @09:57PM (#5611078)

And I'm often reading those articles in Pocket, which means I never see them at all. Very frustrating.

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Re:The next generation of Instapaper by vasco on Thursday April 25, 2013 @06:36PM (#5610393)

3.99$ vs 0$ means it is infinitely better not just 4x times better.

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Re:The next generation of Instapaper by umsm on Thursday April 25, 2013 @06:56PM (#5610494)

I don't think he was referring to the math involved (even though he wrote it) ;)

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Re:The next generation of Instapaper by abdophoto on Thursday April 25, 2013 @07:01PM (#5610515)

Yeah absolutely.

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Re:The next generation of Instapaper by 1123581321 on Thursday April 25, 2013 @06:28PM (#5610350)

I tried Pocket and couldn't get past not having article length indicator, the quick archive/delete menu, favorites, and the Kindle auto-digest. Has the situation improved in any of those areas?

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