Apple readying iPhone only RSS web app
It would seem that Apple is eating their own dogfood in regards to Web 2.0 applications for the iPhone. Go visit reader.mac.com, I'll wait. At the time of posting you'll get a splash page like the one shown above (assuming you aren't using an iPhone to visit it). The iPhone in that graphic clearly shows a web based RSS reader designed just for the iPhone (perhaps it syncs with your Safari RSS feeds). It is hosted on .Mac, so does this mean we'll be seeing some useful additions to .Mac very soon? I hope so!
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It would seem that Apple is eating their own dogfood in regards to Web 2.0 applications for the iPhone. Go visit reader.mac.com, I'll wait....
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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."
Via user agent spoofing:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/180/picture2rq9.png
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?
June 28 2007 at 1:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replybuzmob.com does RSS feeds fast & easy...cheerz!
June 28 2007 at 12:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replybuzmob.com does RSS feeds fast & easy...cheerz!
June 28 2007 at 12:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyiPhone's Safari doesn't do RSS, that's why this is necessary.
June 28 2007 at 9:05 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDumb, 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.
June 28 2007 at 8:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@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/
What's the user agent the iPhone reports when it's requested?
June 28 2007 at 6:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThey have changed the iPhone image to the locked and clocked screen. Still cool though, wonder how long its gonna take to get to aus.
June 28 2007 at 5:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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