As I downloaded the economist app to listen to economist articles today, I felt the exact opposite of this article...
1. Won't be able to link to any article to friends unless the app maker decided to implement specific "share" functionality. Unlike a link that I can email, text, store in a file...
2. Oh and even if they have made this share functionality, it may not work on my friend's non-iPhone device. Even if I decided to share this with myself, I may not be able to consume it on my Mac.
3. Can't open multiple articles/audios in different tabs unless the app writer specifically took the time to make a multiple views interface
4. I'll have to wait 8 months before I can view this data on my iPad, because the co made the 100% reasonable decision to ship iPhone only first. I much prefer being completely incapable of viewing this data on one of my devices than a possibly less than ideal rendering of a web page with it on every platform I own.
5. Almost certainly can't group media in terms of topic, since the top level view is always going to be "app". So no collection of research bookmarks, just everything lost in their little provider's containers...
6. And the bonus is I now have to worry about the right place to organize this stupid app on my screen since I can't just keep a link to the data I care about.
I don't think hes argueing of the whole web.. hes talking about javascript. Eg websites that could and perhaps should be apps. This is different from a website that provides information.
1. Won't be able to link to any article to friends unless the app maker decided to implement specific "share" functionality. Unlike a link that I can email, text, store in a file...
2. Oh and even if they have made this share functionality, it may not work on my friend's non-iPhone device. Even if I decided to share this with myself, I may not be able to consume it on my Mac.
3. Can't open multiple articles/audios in different tabs unless the app writer specifically took the time to make a multiple views interface
4. I'll have to wait 8 months before I can view this data on my iPad, because the co made the 100% reasonable decision to ship iPhone only first. I much prefer being completely incapable of viewing this data on one of my devices than a possibly less than ideal rendering of a web page with it on every platform I own.
5. Almost certainly can't group media in terms of topic, since the top level view is always going to be "app". So no collection of research bookmarks, just everything lost in their little provider's containers...
6. And the bonus is I now have to worry about the right place to organize this stupid app on my screen since I can't just keep a link to the data I care about.