Instapaper & Reading List
While covered well in a few places already, I just wanted to throw in a few thoughts about how the Reading List feature in Lion will affect Instapaper. I think Marco is completely right not to worry. There is, however, one area he didn’t seem to address.
Once Reading List becomes a standard system feature Instapaper will likely no longer be something recommended by Apple. We’ve seen this with Kindle, now that iBooks is out. Once Apple has an in-house method of doing something they’ll then make that the recommended approach. This won’t directly hurt Instapaper, but it will remove one way that has helped it in the past. I suspect when people go into the Apple store and ask about apps they should get on their iPad Instapaper may not be one of them anymore.
I hope I’m wrong, or if I’m right that it won’t hurt too much.