Marco Arment

Instapaper sold to Betaworks

By Joseph Keller, Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 a 8:30 pm

Marco Arment, creator of popular read-it-later service Instapaper, has sold a majority stake in the service to Betaworks. Arment was concerned that he alone was not able to give Instapaper the attention that it needed going forward, determining that to remain healthy, it would need a full team of developers.

The Magazine, by passionate technologists, for passionate technologists, now available in Newsstand

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 a 11:10 am

The Magazine is a new endeavor by Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper and host of Build & Analyze, with no greater or lesser goal than to do an iOS Newsstand periodical the way it was meant to be done. In a market all too littered by massive, unwieldy Adobe InDesign exports, shackled with old-world sales and marketing models, The Magazine's premise comes off as almost audacious -- 4 articles every two weeks, written by passionate technologists for passionate technologists.

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Iterate 28: Arment

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Aug 31, 2012 a 11:52 am

Marc, Seth, and Rene talk about the Retina/HiDPI web, Microsoft's new logo, the new Facebook app, and Pixate, and interview Marco Arment of Instaper fame. This is Iterate!

Newly installed and updated apps reportedly crashing on launch due to corrupt App Store binary bug

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Jul 4, 2012 a 10:49 pm

If you've downloaded or updated an app from the iPhone or iPad App Store in the last day or so, and it's crashing every time you launch it, you might have gotten a bad binary from Apple. At least that's what Instapaper developer Marco Arment began trouble-shooting last night on Twitter, and has now posted in detail about on Marco.org.

iPad vs. Kindle vs. Nook -- which one's better for you?

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Oct 28, 2011 a 11:12 am

Coffee lover, e-reader, and Instapaper developer Marco Arment put together what he describes as an informal survey of the current library landscape, including iPad and iBooks, Amazon's Kindle and Kindle app, the Nook color, and Kobo.

If you’re going to primarily read periodicals, get the iPad. If you’re going to read books, all of these platforms look like safe options.

iCloud causing data clearing problems for iOS 5 apps

By Andrew Wray, Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 a 7:08 pm

Marco Arment, creator of the popular Instapaper app for the iPhone and iPad, noticed an problem related to changes made in iOS 5 tied to iCloud backups.

Is Verizon iPhone your first iOS device?

By Brian Tufo, Tuesday, Feb 22, 2011 a 9:19 am

Most common words in 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Sep 12, 2010 a 6:24 pm

The most common words used uniquely in 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews, according to Instapaper and Tumblr developer Marco Arment who wrote a script to collect the data:

5-star: awesome, worth, thanks, amazing, simple, perfect, price, everything, ever, must, ipod, before, found, store, never, recommend, done, take, always, touch

1-star: waste, money, crashes, tried, useless, nothing, paid, open, deleted, downloaded, didn’t, says, stupid, anything, actually, account, bought, apple, already

His analysis is well worth the read.

[Marco.org]

Instapaper Pro for iPad Preview

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Mar 24, 2010 a 9:22 am

Developer Marco Arment has posted some preview pictures for the coming soon-as-possible iPad version of his terrific Instapaper Pro app, and provided some interesting commentary into the design and thinking behind a rapid release.

If you're not familiar with Instapaper, it's a software/services combo that lets you quickly mark interesting articles you come across to "read later" either via a bookmarklet in your browser or via embedded support in other apps like NetNewsWire or Tweetie. You can then go to the Instapaper website or open the Instapaper Free [Free - iTunes link] or Instapaper Pro [$4.99 - iTunes link] app on your iPhone or iPod touch (and soon iPad) and enjoy those articles in a highly read-optimized form. Geek candy, to be sure.

Arment, Siracusa Weigh in on Apple iTablet

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Jan 3, 2010 a 9:08 am

Previously we linked to Daring Fireball's John Gruber, who felt Apple was going redefine the personal computer with their (perhaps) upcoming iTablet/iSlate, and now Marco Arment of Tumblr and Instapaper, and John Siracusa of Ars Technica share their thoughts as well.

Arment starts off laying out the pros and cons of the iPhone and MacBook form factors and functions, and the struggle other devices have had trying to fill the in-between with a tablet. As to Apple's take: