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iPhone & .Mac: RSS-Reader to go

It’d be great to read one’s RSS feeds while on the bus home from school or without having to take out the MacBook Pro and search for WiFi in a free period at school. Unlimited data is included with all iPhone plans and I hope there’ll be UMTS/3G for a faster connection to the internet implemented in the European version.

The feedreader on my Mac, NetNewsWire syncs with it’s online companion, Newsgator, that lives in your browser—I don’t use it yet, since I’ve always got my Mac with me.

Now there’s reader.mac.com—the application running on the iPhone is Safari, and the active web application looks a lot like Safari RSS (see the picture below). It seems Apple developed the first iPhone web application after pointing out the possibilities that developers have without an SDK (software development kit) available.

While the author of the respecting article over on TUAW assumes it could sync with Safari RSS, I think it won’t—Apple announced that Leopard’s (Mac OS X 10.5) Mail.app handles RSS as well, this will be what syncs with this new .mac service.

Since I don’t have a .mac account, I hope that there’ll be a similar solution with NetNewsWire and NewsGator—something that easier to use on a small screen than the current NewsGator presumably is. But wait—I haven’t got an iPhone yet, so do I need to worry as of today?