Planning on developing an RSS reader for the iPhone?  Well, it looks like Apple might have got there before you, although that’s no great surprise considering they’ve had a bit more access to the handset than anyone else.  An Engadget reader spotted that reader.mac.com takes you to a launch page for what looks like – from the iPhone screenshot – an RSS interface.

I guess it’s no real surprise that RSS was in the works – most of the tech-savvy iPhone early-adopters will make use of RSS in their normal lives, and with an always-connected handset I should imagine it’s a reasonably straightforward application to code.

It’ll face competition from third-party vendors, of course; established aggregator providers such as NewsGator are already looking at how they’ll integrate their service into the iPhone.  What’s interesting is Apple’s being a web-based solution – since it looks like they’ll be the only one able to write actual programs for the handset (as opposed to web applets running in Safari) you’d think they’d leverage that USP.

reader.mac.com [via Engadget]