This is exactly what I was thinking. No one knew who he was, and I'm still seeing Minecraft as one of the most popular apps on the iPhone.
It's currently the 25th highest grossing app, 12th if you exclude all the free games that rely on in game purchases.
The fact that my wife knows what Minecraft is speaks worlds, when I barely get her to pick up an xbox remote, let alone think she'd find an obscure indie developer.
"Well, we’re all in showbiz now, walking on eggshells, relentlessly tending our customer base. We’re all selling something today, because even if we aren’t literally selling something (though thanks to the Internet as well as the entrepreneurial ideal, more and more of us are), we’re always selling ourselves. We use social media to create a product — to create a brand — and the product is us. We treat ourselves like little businesses, something to be managed and promoted."
"At this time the Company has determined not to proceed with the initial public offering contemplated by the Registration Statement. The Registration Statement has not been declared effective by the Commission and the Company hereby confirms that no securities were sold in connection with the offering described in the Registration Statement. Therefore, withdrawal of the Registration Statement is consistent with the public interest and the protection of investors, as contemplated by paragraph (a) of Rule 477."
Please, no :( Apple has a long history of building their own product based on what's already in the market, ad they rarely bother to acquire the developer who originally thought of the idea. I wouldn't want Marco to suffer that fate.
1. It just works - I have never encountered an issue with the bookmarklet not formatting an article correctly.
2. Day vs. night mode. You can configure it to automatically switch to white text on a black background at night.
3. Performance - even with 100+ articles the app doesn't slow down and downloads new articles in seconds. Switching between articles and scrolling long articles is liquid smooth.
Overall, you can tell just by using it that a ton of thought was put into the UI.
I agree that instapaper is fantastic, but the article formatting only works for me about 95% of the time. There seem to be some sites that it occasionally gets wrong in a really annoying way (like including some odd dump of the site's sidebar that requires you to finger-swipe for about 5-10 seconds on an iPod to get to the article contents, which are of course easy to speed by).
