Apple iPhone RSS Reader - It has just been discovered that Apple has its own Web 2.0 App ready for the iPhone Release. The site appears to to be an Apple offical iPhone RSS Reader. The page says it is only viewable on the iPhone so we will not have more info untill the release.
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I tried it on my iPhone (ok using iPhoney) and it just redirects (no warning) to http://www.apple.com/iphone/ Seems they are doing some extra blocking.
This is with the user agent string “Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419.3″
Looks like this was to fool people before the iPhone shipped — the message I get when visiting that URL on my iPhone is “If you’d like to view an RSS feed, just enter the feed URL directly into Safari’s address bar.”
This isn’t an application for organizing and viewing feeds. Apple didn’t include RSS functionality into the version of Safari that runs on the iPhone. Instead, if you click on an RSS link, you are redirected to this page for viewing of the feed. I suspect it’s just a temporary solution until they update Safari on the iPhone to include feed reading capabilities.
Nilay Shah on July 1st, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I used it on my iPhone. It helps to really read RSS feeds Very quickly, even on the Edge network.
atrus on December 9th, 2007 at 7:10 am
I used ipod touch, the address replied that to use reader.mac.com, just open rss feed in safari.
I tried it on my iPhone (ok using iPhoney) and it just redirects (no warning) to http://www.apple.com/iphone/ Seems they are doing some extra blocking.
This is with the user agent string “Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419.3″
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Yah it seems like they are blocking all access until the big day. either that or they have some advanced way of detecting the iphone…
Looks like this was to fool people before the iPhone shipped — the message I get when visiting that URL on my iPhone is “If you’d like to view an RSS feed, just enter the feed URL directly into Safari’s address bar.”
I tried it on a real iPhone. It just gives you directions that RSS reading is built into Safari and type the feed address into the address bar.
This isn’t an application for organizing and viewing feeds. Apple didn’t include RSS functionality into the version of Safari that runs on the iPhone. Instead, if you click on an RSS link, you are redirected to this page for viewing of the feed. I suspect it’s just a temporary solution until they update Safari on the iPhone to include feed reading capabilities.
I used it on my iPhone. It helps to really read RSS feeds Very quickly, even on the Edge network.
I used ipod touch, the address replied that to use reader.mac.com, just open rss feed in safari.