In Google Reader, I tend to read my feeds in the “all items” view, which negates point number 2, and point number 3 might be iffy. But the unread counts drive me nuts and cause me to dump high-flow feeds that I otherwise enjoy.

I tried many RSS readers in the past: feeddemon is best for desktop and GR can’t be bitten by any service that I’m aware: for desktop it’s perfect through Prism, and the mobile version just answers why google is what it is today – it even reformats all “non mobile friendly” pages automagically

I’m trying to argue that Gruber could have and should have used a different example, one where the Apple version and the competition’s version were both in the wild and had some track record.

Gruber is, I believe, pretty careful with his language, so parsing it is worthwhile. The phrase “as easy as making a regular voice call” means certain things. It doesn’t mean, to me anyway, the same as “as easy as making a regular voice call to someone with the same model of phone connected to WiFi,” just as it doesn’t mean “as easy as making a regular voice call to someone who has also installed and signed up for Qik on the same model of phone.”

Is Apple’s version undeniably simpler than Android’s? We have no evidence to the contrary, but, again, no one is carrying around Apple’s version in his pocket yet, right?

I read Gruber for insightful analysis and good links, not links to the Apple PR line.

That said, I’m not sure that Apple’s rollout of video calling (I’m not going to use their marketing term) is as good as it could or should have been. iPhone4 to iPhone4 seems pretty limiting when Apple’s own Macs can videochat via iChat (which also includes screen sharing, btw). And there, look, they already had a marketing term in iChat.

They still make the best product. Join us, Nick.