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by NathanKP 5856 days ago
They'll probably be even less happy with Apple's new Safari 5 reader:

http://experimentgarden.com/safari-5-reader-why-it-wont-work...

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Maybe phones that already know the user's credit card number could keep track of a micro-payment each time the readability feature is used on a participating and non-content-obscuring site and send off a few dollars every N uses.
More likely they will just start putting ads in the article content itself.
And that would be different how, exactly?
Product placement in articles.

The BP oil spill has made its CEO so flustered he needed a nice cool Coke-Cola(r) to relax, mind interview. Clearly only a Coke(r) would do, as the CEO is a man of sense, staying away from the slightly detergent taste of Pepsi. Smart man.

Next step: product placement in the news.