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Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App

Brent Simmons · 4 Oct 2025

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  1. I could charge for NetNewsWire, but that would go against my political goal of making sure there’s a good and free RSS reader available to everyone.
  2. A world where everything is on the web and nothing is on the machines that we own is a sad world where we’ve lost a core freedom.
  3. What I want to see happen is for Apple to allow iPhone and iPad users to load — not sideload, a term I detest, because it assumes Apple’s side of things — whatever apps they want to. Because those devices are computers.

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