Talk:Pocket (service)

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Did you know... that the application Read It Later obtained venture capital investments totaling $2.5 million in 2011?

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Reception of the Firefox integration[edit]

This edit seems incomplete (no citations, just hearsay), more like personal opinion just to be taken for granted rather than being accompanied by links to, say, a forum thread where I can check up on this myself. I don't edit wikipedia usually so I am averse to just reverting an edit, and also not sure of my capabilities to present this in a better way, even though I think it's a valid criticism to be left in (if presented more acceptably). 95.91.232.69 (talk) 00:03, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Offline cloud?[edit]

The "Functions" section currently starts with two sentences that seem contradictory. The first one states that the application "allows the user to save an article or web page to the cloud for later reading" and the second one states that the article "is then sent to the user's Pocket list [...] for offline reading". If it can really be read offline, then the whole article would have to be sent to the user’s device(s) in advance, in which case the use of the expressions "list" and "cloud" would be unjustified. If, on the other hand, articles are initially stored only in the cloud (which seems more plausible), then the act of retrieving them from there should surely not be described as an "offline" activity. 66.130.248.96 (talk) 23:28, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I just tried to find out what pocket really does with the content. Apparently it works on it, removing stuff, and then storing the result in the cloud. Already now the question would be: 1. Is that individual, or are popular articles stored in one version for all? Then: 2. What about copyright? 3. If the content disappears (by design) from the site of the originator, does it stay in pocket (as in archive)? – When your pocket content is broadcast to all your devices: 4. Are just headers and a teaser line being sent or is it the whole article? 5. If the whole article (or picture or video or whatever) is sent to all your devices, can you opt out individually by device to save traffic? Personally I hate untimely downloads, if I’m in a hurry to lookup something and the device delights itself with a, say, windows update. 6. Other topic: What’s the business model of pocket? – It would be nice if someone researches this maily by trying that herself, and less via marketing statements. Cloud and offline are different storage features and must be explained in their interworking at pocket, please. PS: The new pocket button in Firefox’ URL line can be removed by right mouse click. It still remains callable under the menu dots … . – Fritz Jörn (talk) 20:35, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Server-side code may not be open-sourced.[edit]

In an email I sent to Pocket, they told me that they plan to open-source the Android code in 2022, but there are no plans to open source their existing server-side code.

Of course, that could mean that new server-side code will be written. Either way, I will be using something else, as I am trying to avoid proprietary software in daily life Hamishmb (talk) 18:38, 13 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]