<story><title>Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2011/04/28/removed-instapaper-free</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonLim</author><text>Many of my friends own iPhones, and many are flabbergasted when they find out that my phone is not jailbroken nor is it filled with free apps.&lt;p&gt;I happily pay for quality apps. Why? It&apos;s going to cost me anywhere from $1 to $10, and that is honestly chump change for an app that will provide much more in value.&lt;p&gt;For some reason, if you give away your work for free, all of the cheapskates and losers come out and start insulting the service and/or claiming they didn&apos;t get enough support.&lt;p&gt;What do people expect when they don&apos;t pay for a valuable app...?</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>I second, third, and fourth the notion about pathological customers.  iOS is practically training a generation of them.  I&apos;m glad they are far away from me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xuzz</author><text>As someone who works on software for jailbroken phones, I just want to make it clear that jailbreaking and piracy are &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; the same thing.&lt;p&gt;Yes, jailbreaking makes piracy possible, but Cydia has multiple warnings about adding the repositories required for piracy. In fact, our best statistics show less than half of all the jailbroken devices have pirated an app.&lt;p&gt;I agree with your points, but I don&apos;t want people to misunderstand the point of jailbreaking: jailbreaking is about controlling your own device and doing things the App Store doesn&apos;t even conceptually allow.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2011/04/28/removed-instapaper-free</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonLim</author><text>Many of my friends own iPhones, and many are flabbergasted when they find out that my phone is not jailbroken nor is it filled with free apps.&lt;p&gt;I happily pay for quality apps. Why? It&apos;s going to cost me anywhere from $1 to $10, and that is honestly chump change for an app that will provide much more in value.&lt;p&gt;For some reason, if you give away your work for free, all of the cheapskates and losers come out and start insulting the service and/or claiming they didn&apos;t get enough support.&lt;p&gt;What do people expect when they don&apos;t pay for a valuable app...?</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>I second, third, and fourth the notion about pathological customers.  iOS is practically training a generation of them.  I&apos;m glad they are far away from me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbateman</author><text>I really hate the fact that you can&apos;t just straight up pay for more things and am deeply suspicious of free services. What benefit do you get from me using your service if I&apos;m not paying you? In some cases, like Google, the benefit is that I can be sold to advertisers. Nothing is really free, and it&apos;s better, cleaner, and less scammy feeling to know and pay the cost up front.&lt;p&gt;If there&apos;s a free vs. paid app that I want I will always go for the paid app. I never tried Instapaper free.</text></comment>