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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The next generation of Instapaper   —  When I launched Instapaper in 2008, it was a very basic web app.  It quickly expanded to define the pillars of the read-later market: a one-click “read later” bookmarklet, a web sync service, an adjustable text view optimized for reading, and an iPhone app with offline saving.
Apr 25, 2013, 6:05 PMIn context
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The power of the RSS reader   —  With the decreasing use of RSS readers over the last few years, which will probably be accelerated by Google Reader's shutdown in July, many are bidding good riddance to a medium that they never used well.  —  RSS is easy to abuse.  In 2011, I wrote Sane RSS usage:
Mar 27, 2013, 1:25 AMIn context
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
A Mac Pro Mini   —  For years, geeks have wanted Apple to make an “xMac”: an expandable desktop tower like the Mac Pro, but much cheaper, generally achieved in theory by using consumer-class CPUs and motherboards instead of Intel's expensive, server-grade Xeon line.
Mar 7, 2013, 1:55 AMIn context
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Why don't MacBooks come with cellular networking?   —  I've shared John Gruber's theory on this for a while: … It's been long enough since cellular modems in PC laptops became commonplace, and the MacBook line is diverse enough, that the omission of cellular options looks like a deliberate choice …
Feb 27, 2013, 12:40 AMIn context
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The Magazine: now with full-article sharing, web subscriptions   —  When I launched The Magazine in October, I didn't know whether enough people would subscribe to keep it afloat.  I didn't know whether most people would make fun of the idea, argue that articles on the internet should be free …
Feb 25, 2013, 8:30 AMIn context
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
A crazier prediction: iPhone Plus is real, and huge   —  So far, I'm betting on an A5X-powered Retina iPad Mini by this fall.  While I'm making semi-crazy predictions about future iOS products so I can look back on this in a year and probably feel like an idiot for being so wrong, here's one more.
Jan 31, 2013, 6:00 PMIn context
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
My master plan for revolutionizing the future of publishing and saving tablet-native journalism   —  I have a lot of respect for the publishing industry and the futurists who try to predict where it's heading.  Nobody in that business has it particularly easy.
Dec 12, 2012, 6:10 PMIn context
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The iPad Mini and the cost of Retina   —  The iPad Mini is a conflicted product.  —  It's much better than the iPad 3 and 4 to handle, carry, and hold up during use.  It has the best external design of any iPad to date.  It runs cooler than the iPad 3 or 4, it has almost the same battery life despite …
Nov 13, 2012, 12:55 AMIn context
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Gigabytes   —  From a Virtual Pants post refuting my experiences with the Surface: … Mr. Pants reminded me of a pricing trick I've wanted to point out for a while.  —  Flash-memory upgrades on tablets are much cheaper for the manufacturers than the $100 increments that Apple established with the original iPad pricing.
Nov 5, 2012, 12:05 AMIn context
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
An alternate universe   —  On the way to the Apple Store today to buy AppleCare+ for my wife's new iPhone 5, we passed the new Microsoft Store, coincidentally in the middle of their Surface with Windows RT launch.  (That is actually the product's name.  “Surface with Windows RT”.)
Oct 27, 2012, 5:00 AMIn context

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