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Not at all.

Apple's service is useful, but it's only an aggregated list of your own links to read. Open one on iOS, and it opens the full webpage. Far from ideal.

It's excellent to see them contributing to online reading, though. The 'Reader' Safari feature is based on our code, actually! (we're in the license page).

There is no way to view your links outside of the Apple's browsers, it automatically archives links you click on even once, even if just to peak, and it's entirely locked to the Mac and iOS devices. For the target audience the feature was designed for (clearly not my mom), it falls short in many ways. I don't think anything's killing anything quite yet.

Plenty of people who don't use Safari.