Tablets are waiting for their Movable Type

Re:Tablets are waiting for their Movable Type by petewailes on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @08:16AM (#4836973)

This is a conflation of the idea of a desire to publish, with the theory that that publishing must be de facto available on any platform in it's native format. In the same way that we don't need desktop apps for reading a blog, or a website, or anything else, we don't need a tablet or phone app either.

In this case, a website works perfectly well, with the advantages of being searchable and sharable in far more granular and broader formats than an app, thanks to the likes of Google, likes/retweets etc.

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Re:Tablets are waiting for their Movable Type by pretoriusB on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @09:18AM (#4837186)

>This is a conflation of the idea of a desire to publish, with the theory that that publishing must be de facto available on any platform in it's native format.

No, it's a conflation of the desire to publish with the desire to target the best electronic devices for reading (tablets), with the best format for _each_ platform (native), with easy 1-click access to monetization (already stored credit cards and people known to buy things).

None of the above are solved by a website.

And much less it solves stuff like background updates, large volumes of data and pictures being readable offline, etc.

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