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This isn't just a symptom of the iPad. I've always been confused when news sites build an iPhone app for people to read the same news they can read in the brows
by hkuo 17y ago
This isn't just a symptom of the iPad. I've always been confused when news sites build an iPhone app for people to read the same news they can read in the browser or a news aggregator. It seems the time, cost, and energy could be spent improving the site experience, making accommodations for the differences in finger and mouse inputs.
Is it just for the ability to boast that they have an iPhone or iPad app? Perhaps it's just another avenue to increase readership?
Regardless, it's their choice to build the apps and users choice to pay for and use them, so c'est la vie.
- vegashacker 17y agoThere's evidence (both anecdotal and numeric) suggesting that people prefer using an apps to the "raw" web. My mom says about her iPhone, "Safari is still kind of hard for me. So I always look for an app first." I suspect her usage pattern may be somewhat typical, and if so, it may make a lot of sense for these companies to build these apps--because they're what the users want.
- _delirium 17y agoIt raises their visibility too, because it puts them in the main list of apps, as a top-level thing.
- fareita 17y agoThe whole point of having an Iphone app is the userbility. Please have a look at this article. http://carsonified.com/blog/mobile/make-your-site-mobile-friendly/ http://carsonified.com/blog/mobile/make-your-site-mobile-fri... Fareita @ Moreover Technologies Ltd. And yes we have an iphone App for live global sports news!