Mc Cabe Wrote:Well what's the point of having a desktop one? Still requires the internet and when you're online, you tend to have a browser open, so visiting one website instead of 50 is just as good.

- less loading, as you don't need to load additional metadata for each page
- as with above, generally faster, especially cached content
- integration, eg get a popup when there's a new article, similar to how MSN works
- almost always more configurable
- internet apps suck
- did I mention that internet apps suck?
- Google doesn't seem to like my connection (I often have to try 2-3 times to get a search to work)

And no, you can actually use these news readers without a connection.  The connection is only required for downloading new articles, but if your connection dies, you can still view saved articles.