Tablets are waiting for their Movable Type

Re:Tablets are waiting for their Movable Type by Adaptive on Monday November 26, 2012 @10:39PM (#4835492)

I agree with this in almost every regard. I really don't like the drift towards sandboxed apps where HTML will do just as (or more) nicely.

But: money.

Solve subscriptions. This is what the apps do. Adobe DPS, which I mention below, is so totally geared to creating paid subscription content.

The Readability fiasco was unfortunate since I'd like to see other non-ad based approaches to paying open content publishers/creators. Unfortunately, no one on the vested interest side of the fence (including Apple) has any real motivation to solve for this.

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Re:Tablets are waiting for their Movable Type by quanticle on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @04:20AM (#4836353)

I don't see how apps solve subscription any more than a (paid-access) website. In fact, thanks to Apple's draconian 30% cut of all in-app purchases, it can be argued that apps are worse, when it comes to subscriptions. At least when you're serving content through the browser you're not automatically losing 30% of your revenue.

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Re:Tablets are waiting for their Movable Type by nc on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @06:02AM (#4836605)

1 tap (or 2) purchasing and lots of accounts with credit cards attached

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