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The Safari Reader Arms Race
JimLynch writes "Apple, by adding Reader to Safari 5, is essentially trying to force an e-book style interface onto the web reading experience. It will never work out over the long haul because web publishers will resist and the end result will be an arms race, with publishers on one side and Apple on the other." Another unmentioned issue is that sometimes it doesn't work. I've found pages where content is omitted from the reader UI.
I have a MacBook pro and have for years b=now and what Apple has introduced as an 'option' has often turned into a mandatory function. Java used to come with a Cocoa bridge but because they didn't like Java development on Mac, they killed it. Accessing API's used to be something they used to let people do... now if you try to access underlying API's you get booted from their app store.
Apple has a way of changing their mind after everyone is using their tools.
Apple is the new Microsoft... Microsoft is the Old Microsoft... Google is the new Sweetness with Death Cannons on Orbitting Sattelites; I'll be manning one soon. Oxygen is for losers.
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
If they're annoying, why do you read them? Why do you go to sites with ads you don't like?
I'm not saying that in a judgmental fashion -- I use ABP and greatly enjoy it. I just realize that I'm having my cake and eating it too, and it's grossly unsustainable. Will Apple provide a similar feature to block iAds from the iOS ecosystem?
We need to revisit micropayments. The ad supported model is a continual cycle of unwanted side effects.