The API Revolution
One of Arment’s goals in developing the API in the future is to allow Instapaper to move beyond iOS: “I don’t personally have the time or motivation to make good clients for those platforms, but I do intend to make a fully featured API available soon that would enable third-party developers to make Instapaper clients if they wish.”
Instapaper Inventor Links Inattentive Reading to Information Obesity | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
The now-standard assumption that any web service worth using should include an open API has already led to a revolution in user experience. The fact that back-end developers and user experience designers can cooperate only to the degree they need to, and can specialize in their respective fields while barely incurring any transaction costs is a technological marvel.
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