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Pocket - I'll Read You Later • kβs

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I love you, but you’re bringing me down making me sad. I feel like the direction you’re taking the Product will eventually lead you off a cliff. And you can’t fly. And no, you won’t be able to assemble some wings on the way down. And then I’ll have to find a new home for my reading list. And I don’t know if I can go through that again after Google Reader’s shutdown. (Also, the death of Instapaper and Readability is making me concerned about Pocket’s future.) Disclaimer: I have no inside information on how things are going with Pocket. This post is largely speculative and based on a purely external analysis of a very active user (me). For those of you who haven’t heard of it, Pocket is a service that allows you to save what you find on the web to watch and read on any device, anytime. It has a browser extension through which you can save any webpage, and mobile and web apps where you can access the content at a later time. Perhaps you’ve heard of some of its competitors: Instapaper 1, R

Dear Pocket, I love you, but you’re bringing me down making me sad. I feel like the direction you’re taking the Product will eventually lead you off a cliff. And you can’t fly. And no, you won’t be able to assemble some wings on the way down. And then I’ll have to find a new home for my reading list. And I don’t know if I can go through that again after Google Reader’s shutdown. (Also, the death of Instapaper and Readability is making me concerned about Pocket’s future.) Disclaimer : I have no inside information on how things are going with Pocket. This post is largely speculative and based on

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