Readability was in the news recently because Apple rejected their App submission for including Apple’s subscription method.
Readability is a service that makes reading web pages uncluttered by removing images and ads. They recently revamped their entire service by offering a revenue sharing system with publishers for content read through Readability.
Since Readability was not a publisher themselves they did not use Apple’s subscription service. This did not sit well with Apple and they rejected their app.
Instead of brooding over it, the Readability team went back to the drawing board and created an awesome iOS compatible HTML5 web app with offline reading capability.
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the new, enhanced version of Readability for mobile and tablet devices. With this release, we’re delivering a rich and comfortable reading experience on most popular tablets and smart phones.
Readability Mobile Features
- Drop a link and read comfortably.. instantly
- Responsive display of the reading experience
- Full offline support
- Customize and share – Twitter & Facebook
Readability has submitted their app again and awaiting a decision from Apple. With Stave Jobs saying SaaS model apps aren’t submitted to the subscription model, it is possible the Readability app will be approved.
We will wait and see what happens there. Until then, you can enjoy Readability.com on your mobile browser. The fallout of this is that Android users can also enjoy this thanks to the HTML5 webapp.
{ via Readability blog }
