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icloud Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones Software told me, "The amount of user-facing work that's going into Mac OS X 10.7 and iOS 5 is truly impressive, especially as it reflects an enormous amount of work under the hood." He adds, "Fifteen hundred new APIs may take more than a week to digest. But certainly as the week goes on I expect to have a better sense of how we can employ the internal developments to make better products for our customers." I noted yesterday that Apple's iOS appear to have taken some inspiration from other third-party products in their designs. Safari's Reading List offers some of the features of Instapaper, while the new camera use features match some of those of the popular Camera+ app. [This story is from Computerworld's Apple Holic blog. Follow on Twitter or subscribe via RSS to make sure you don't miss a beat.] 'T


entative optimism' Instapaper creator, Marco Arment didn't take the Safari Reading List announcement well -- at first. He now hopes that if Safari users like Safari Reading List, they'll see value in such solutions, enabling him to let them know that Instapaper is like "Safari's Reading List, but better." "So I'm tentatively optimistic. Our world changes quickly, especially on the cutting edge, and I really don't know what's going to happen. (Nobody does.) But the more potential scenarios I consider, the more likely it seems that Safari's Reading List is either going to have no noticeable effect on Instapaper, or it will improve sales dramatically. Time will tell," he wrote on his blog.

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