I recently blogged about using both Pocket and Instapaper and wishing that Instapaper would get some of Pocket’s features so I could go back to using it. There was a big Instapaper update today, so I decided to take a look at what had been done to see if it’s ready for me:
- Instapaper Daily is now integrated into the “Browse” section. Irrelevant.
- Send to Kindle functionality. Irrelevant.
- AirPlay support. Relevant, but unimportant because Instapaper is still terrible at parsing video.
- Back gestures with pagination enabled. Irrelevant.
- Auto-renewable subscriptions. Relevant, but very minor.
So they’re wasting months of development time working on features that don’t matter, and ignoring basic things that would really help growth.