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Bott points to this iBooks FAQ from Apple, which states that the only formats supported by iBooks are industry-standard ePub and PDF. Given that the modificatio
by rfrey 15y ago
Bott points to this iBooks FAQ from Apple, which states that the only formats supported by iBooks are industry-standard ePub and PDF. Given that the modification date on this FAQ is 22 December 2011, it seems clear that this is simply an outdated FAQ
This makes it sound like relying on a 4-week old FAQ constitutes shoddy journalism. It's not "clear" to me at all that the FAQ is outdated. It still says: "iBooks uses the ePub file format" - if it is just stale-dated information, nobody there thinks it's important enough to change.
- Steko 15y ago"It still says: "iBooks uses the ePub file format"" That statement is as accurate as it's ever been. iBooks uses the ePub file format. You have also been able to do PDFs since forever. Starting last week it also supports .IBA (?) files made from iBooks Author.
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoGiven that he was talking about a change which occurred as part of a major product launch which has happened since the FAQ was published I think it is shoddy journalism. I don't think it takes a genius to work out that when a new product is launch old documentation might not apply to it. Moreover he knows for a fact that it's no longer accurate - he's discussing a new file format (.ibook) the existence of which provably falsifies the statement in the FAQ. In terms of changing updating the FAQ yes it would be good but as far as I can tell for Apple and most others common practice is to leave the old version and add a new version rather than change them. It can make finding the right information difficult and certainly product versions on them as well as the date would be useful but I don't think you can read much into the fact that no-one bothers to manage their information on-line particularly well.