For the longest time, the service I (and everyone) relied on for this was provided by Google (R.I.P.).
The other sticking point has been RSS reading. I still love Instapaper, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that I’m one little feature away from being able to go all-Apple on the thing I do that generates the most identifiable data about me - browsing to websites and reading their articles - and that is my quest these days. But alas, they haven’t gotten around to it, so I’m still doing my dedicated article reading in Instapaper, now living happily acquired in Pinterest’s cozy bosom. They don’t even have to build real syncing they could just add a query string to every URL saved in Reading List like “ ?read=74”, where the number is the percentage of the page you’ve scrolled down, and just sync that tiny little string and tell Safari to jump down to that percentage when it loads that URL. I would happily use Reading List for reading later, too, but sadly it doesn’t sync reading position yet. I’ve long used Safari for all my browsing except work stuff (where I use Chrome as my all-G Suite work island), and I ride Reader mode all day. Apple News gives me the most relevant news feed I’ve ever had. I even have two subscriptions in there, to the Washington Post and National Geographic. I’m still going to use iBooks as my long-term storage for books and long documents - while holding out the dim hope that Apple will make a good reader someday - but now Amazon gets to own what I’m reading for a while.įor hard news, I have completely extricated myself from third parties and pernicious social media trackers and am completely sold on Apple News. I was all in on iBooks for years, but I finally got tired enough of reading books on my bright, shiny distraction machines that I got a Kindle Paperwhite. One other area has required some exceptions, because it’s the one in which I’m the most picky: reading.
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The one major exception is for the OmniGroup, whose software and services I trust even more than Apple’s.
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