Alex Johnson – Journalist at Large

Download Squad has confirmed that I was more right than even I suspected in yesterday’s post about the Reader function in Safari 5 browser. It doesn’t just mimic Arc90’s Readability bookmarklet — it is Arc90’s Readability bookmarklet.

That means Apple is making big marketing hay out of its adoption of a feature PC users have enjoyed for years. Somehow, Cupertino has made this sound like a revolution in browsing. Well, it may be a revolution for the 10 percent or so of folks who live on Mac technology only. For the rest of the world, the proper reaction is “What took you so long?”

Read Dan Kennedy (@dan_kennedy_nu) for an outline of Reader’s Mac usability and a smart kinda-sorta counterview.