Pocket read it later update#

IвЂ™m a visual kind of guy so let me explain with some graphics. Read It Later made money, but that doesnвЂ™t mean it was doing it in a way that best fit our type of service. Before today it was the number one paid news app on Android and Amazon and a top app on iOS. Read It Later was profitable from the day it launched its iPhone app. No app store description or screenshot can do that for you. It takes a little bit before it finally вЂclicksвЂ™ and a user can truly see the benefit. Integrating a service like Pocket into your day takes a big investment of time up-front. While the concept of вЂњsave for laterвЂќ has been growing in popularity, it is not something that the majority of people understand, nor immediately see the value of. It is hard to ask most people to pay for something they donвЂ™t understand Paid apps are hard for a service like ours for two reasons:ДЎ. We decided to make the move to a new revenue model last year and today is just the first step in that process. I understand that there is a stigma of the Silicon Valley startup with a business plan of вЂњWeвЂ™ll figure it out laterвЂќ, and that is not who we are. Personally, I always like to know how the services I love make money because quite simply: I want to know they will stick around. This is a big change to how weвЂ™ve operated in the past and I wanted to give some more insight into the decision.

Pocket read it later update#

As a part of this update we have made all of our apps free. Today we launched a brand new version of Read It Later (now named Pocket). Pocket Why Read It Later/Pocket Went Free