The first version of Mr. Reader is available on the App Store since a week. So far i can say, it's a huge success for me. Great thanks to all of you!

I received a lot of feedback with feature requests, tips for improvement and of course problems and crashes. It took me a lot of time to do all the support, but this is also fun and helps me extremely to improve Mr. Reader! In the free minutes i prepared the first update with many fixes and some improvements. I uploaded v1.0.1 yesterday, and it is currently in status: "Waiting For Review. A list of changes can be found on the version history page of Mr. Reader.

What are the next steps? I'm going to prioritize all entries in my TODO list, to decide what i'm going to implement in version 1.1.

Sorry, but once again:
If you have any features requests, problems or questions, please contact me by mail (mrreader-app[ÄT]curioustimes.de). I'm unable to respond to feedback posted in the iTunes App Store. Furthermore there are more then 80 App Stores world wide and i'm unable to scan all of them for important feedback. Thank you!

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I started with the development of Mr. Reader (it's first name was News Squirrel) in February 2010. At this time i was employed as a Senior Java Developer and coded just in my spare time. I thought that i could publish it on the App Store with the release of the first iPad. But that was a big misjudgment.

Afterwards more and more iPad RSS news reader like Reeder, NewsRack, etc. were available and i always had the feeling that it is not competitive at this time. But, now i'm very happy with version 1.0!

As mentioned in the previous post, i quit my daily job to the end of 2010, and that gives me the necessary time to finalize the first version of Mr. Reader. The small things at the end, take always the most time!

Yesterday was the official release, after one week waiting for review and another one being reviewed. I'm surprised about all the positive feedback i've received so far. Thank you all!

Sure there are some "childhood diseases" in this first version, and i'm going to fix them as soon as possible.

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