![]() People could stream from Netflix and Amazon prime without ever owning their content. It meant services like Spotify could rent music to you without ownership ever being offered. For many reasons, this was the prefered business model for all hardware and software vendors. People stopped syncing content to their devices and started relying on mobile connectivity. All relying on a 3G or 4G signal and constantly connected to the internet. Then came iPhones, smartphones, tablets and smart watches. So syncing for offline viewing was the norm. This was the days of extremely limited GPRS access which was extremely slow & costly. Also, back then, most RSS feeds consisted off the full text of the article, including pictures, making it easy to aggregate blog posts and news posts for viewing offline. For people like me, who are obsessed with the latest information, this was a game changer. The advantage of RSS was the fact that posts could be pulled in from loads of different sources, without the need to go checking each individual site. ![]() Back then I’d access them for offline viewing on my palm pilot or O2 XDA (well before smart phones we had palm tops such as the XDA and companies like Palm who provided me with the Palm IIIc where huge). Right back when XML was starting out and RSS feeds became the norm on blogs & websites, I would use an RSS reader to aggregate the posts from my favourite sites & blogs.
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