Focusing on the highlighted section helps you efficiently and quickly move through the text. This differs from most speed reader apps in that they use a technique called Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, which presents one word at a time.īoth of these speed reading techniques force the reader to stop reading out loud inside their head (subvocalization), which is what slows us down when we are reading. Outread is a new speed reader app for the iPhone that helps you read faster by highlighting short sections of text. What are your views? Would you like to see a slower pace of development in order to have greater reliability? Or do the new features make any glitches worthwhile? Take our poll, and let us know your views in the comments. Twitter commentators seem largely in agreement. We need our computers, phones, and tablets to work well first so we can enjoy new features released at a healthy, gradual, sustainable pace. We don’t need each OS release to have a huge list of new features. We don’t need major OS releases every year. The issue, believes Arment, is that Apple is so focused on releasing a major new version of OS X each year that it is making it impossible for engineering teams to maintain quality. People are sticking with OS X not because they love it, he suggests, but because Windows is worse and desktop Linux is too much hassle. riddled with embarrassing bugs and fundamental regressions I fear that Apple’s leadership doesn’t realize quite how badly and deeply their software flaws have damaged their reputation

Apple is now so focused on marketing-driven goals that its software quality has “taken a nosedive” in the last few years, argues a blog post by Instapaper creator and former Tumblr lead developer Marco Arment.

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