Why would we need a web-based RSS reader when Safari has one built in?

I think there is something else going on here. Or not; it could just be an example of an iPhone-centric app for web developers.

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If Apple is really going forward with this whole AJAX thing (lame), then they have the issue of people who want to develop apps will need a server. Maybe Apple is planning on providing such a service through .Mac? In which case, would you have to pay for it still? Are they partnering up with Google for this? And what language would they use? I'd guess GWT, except Apple has a huge dislike of Java (for reasons I agree with). Which would leave the most likely contenders: RoR and PHP.

Of course they *could* always just provide a scripting language for the iPhone... (*cough* Python *cough* Applescript *cough* F-Script)

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If you use the iphoney application from Marketcircle and visit the reader.mac.com webpage with the "iphone user agent" option enabled the page re-directs you to http://apple.com/iphone

Just to save the next person some time that thinks of doing the same thing.

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It looks to me that the .mac has had a revamping since I left a month ago. Is this true or has it had this new look for awhile?

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Wait... so.. for RSS feeds, you have to spend MORE money and get a $99 a year subscription to .mac?

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"Wait... so.. for RSS feeds, you have to spend MORE money and get a $99 a year subscription to .mac?"

No.

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They have changed the iPhone image to the locked and clocked screen. Still cool though, wonder how long its gonna take to get to aus.

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I think this service doesn't sync with Safari RSS, but with Leopard's new Mail.app—Steve told us before it'd handle RSS as well.

http://julianschrader.de/20070628-iphone-mac-rss-reader-to-go/

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What's the user agent the iPhone reports when it's requested?

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@artifex

Good thought. I just changed Firefox's user agent to "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419" but then reader.mac.com just redirected me to http://www.apple.com/iphone/

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Dumb, semi-related question: does .Mac synchronize the read/unread status of its RSS feeds when it syncs between two computers? If yes, then would it sync the read status when it syncs bookmarks with an iPhone? That would be a nice, built-in RSS alternative to using something like a mobile version of Google Reader, or waiting for a dedicated reader on the phone.

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iPhone's Safari doesn't do RSS, that's why this is necessary.

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It seems to make perfect sense to me that they would put an RSS reader in Safari in the iPhone - they've been touting it as being the exact same as the Mac version. the only question this really begs is: what RSS feed would Apple possibly only want iPhone users to see?

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buzmob.com does RSS feeds fast & easy...cheerz!

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The question is, is this iPhone only because of hardware and software on the Phone, or is it because they have a nice little line in the script requiring an iPhone to continue?

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Via user agent spoofing:

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/180/picture2rq9.png

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Now it says this when I go there with the iPhone user agent:

"If you'd like to view an RSS feed, just enter the feed URL directly into Safari's address bar."

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