It ‘s pretty rare that I get excited about any other RSS reader app apart from Google Reader “ as I ‘ve mentioned before, for me GoogReader is probably my favorite iPhone app, despite being ‘just ‘ a web app.
The only other reader app that has ever really grabbed me is NetNewsWire (know as Newsgator on Windows) “ as it is a full-on desktop app “ and iPhone native app “ with a ton of good features and lots of power. My only issue with NetNewsWire, and the only reason I don ‘t use it regularly, is that it doesn ‘t sync with Google Reader. Apparently that is going to change soon though “ or at least the developer is 95% sure it will in its next versions for Mac and iPhone
In a post on his blog site today Brent Simmons, the creator of NetNewsWire, gives a major update on where he is at with NetNewsWire. Here are some of the highlights from that post:
No estimates yet of when the new versions will be out but it sounds like they ‘re both being worked on very actively now
Here ‘s the scoop: both versions are in extremely active development. I ‘m currently working on NetNewsWire 3.2 and 4.0 for Mac and NetNewsWire 2.0 for iPhone.
I don ‘t have time estimates ” any guesses would be completely wrong. But nobody ‘s more impatient than I am.
Support for Google Reader sync is the plan
The plan is to add Google Reader syncing to NetNewsWire 3.2/Mac and NetNewsWire 2.0/iPhone also. I can ‘t promise for sure for-sure, but I ‘m 95% sure.
More on NetNewsWire 2.0 for iPhone
I ‘ve spent the last six months or so mostly in iPhone-land, working on the foundation for NetNewsWire 2.0. Along the way we discovered it was generalizable and that there ‘s a business doing private-label apps based on the same foundation that will power NetNewsWire 2.0. The highest-profile example is All Things Digital ” if you use it, you are in a way using an early version of NetNewsWire 2.0.
It turns out that learning how to do good news readers on iPhone is harder than I expected. Almost the entire ballgame is about performance.
Simmons also mentions that a lot of time has been spent on the new version ‘s UI, since ‘NetNewsWire 1.0 for iPhone is quite spartan ‘.
So now I do feel excited about an RSS reader that is not Google Reader. I am really psyched to see new desktop and iPhone versions of NetNewsWire with Google Reader sync. If they ‘re done well (which I fully expect they will be), they will provide the first real alternative to GoogReader for me. 🙂
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