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I was late to read this article, A Blind User’s Profound Review of the iPhone. It is touching in many ways, and I find it very hard to decide which part to quote. It’s all moving.

“Can he get text messages on this?” she asked. “Well, yes, but it doesn’t read the message.” the salesman said. Mom’s hopes sunk, but mine didn’t, since I understood the software enough. “Well, let’s see, try it,” I suggested. She pulled out her phone, and sent me a text message. Within seconds, my phone alerted me, and said her name. I simply swiped my finger and it read her message: “Hi Austin.” She almost cried.

The iPhone is awesome in unexpected ways, but this one’s a true winner.

July 17, 2009, Marco Arment:

I’ve never doubted the viability of running a serious business of writing iPhone apps before. For the first time, now, I am.

September 23, 2010, New York Times’ Bits:

On Tuesday Marco Arment, the chief technology officer at the social networking site Tumblr, announced that he would be leaving it to tend to a personal project: Instapaper.
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“Basically the plan is to keep doing what I have been doing with it,” he said, adding that it’s always been a profitable business. “Now, there are features I want to create and business relationships that I’d love to explore.”

As an avid user of Instapaper, I’m so glad that Marco made it a profitable business after all.