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The iPad/iOS match this precisely. People who own iPads have demonstrated they are willing to pay for content. The App is beautiful - it pulls you into focuss

The iPad/iOS match this precisely. People who own iPads have demonstrated they are willing to pay for content. The App is beautiful - it pulls you into focussing 100% on the content in front of you, unlike a web browser with it's endless diversions to the left and right.

Jare 14y ago
Web browsers do not have diversions, badly designed web sites do. The articles in The Magazine are simple HTML and a clean CSS. If you go to the web site and read the foreword, it looks exactly like the app. The only reason I can imagine, and mind you it is a BIG reason, to make The Magazine an app is the business model.
- ghshephard 14y ago
  I don't know about your screen - but mine has 20+ bookmarks, 10+ open tabs, and (currently) about six different applications visible on my screen. 5 seconds ago I was on a Tab looking at the Presidential Debates before I came over to HN - 5 seconds from now I"ll be on OmniFocus, which is visible 2" to the right of the browser screen. I read the web on my laptop, differently than I consume content iPad. When I read "The Magazine" it launched the App, and it took over 100% of my iPad experience, and I spent the next 20 minutes reading through the four (excellent) articles, completely free of distraction. I'm willing to pay $2 for 8, carefully curated, selected, edited, and written articles from Marco Arment, presented to me on my iPad. Those 4 articles, on Life/Love/Technology, on Volatiles vs Stables, and the impact on how to manage engineering companies, on the concept of "Voice" and the linkBlob/Fireball format, and the schism in Geeks who Love Sports, and those who don't and really, what is the central essence of being a Geek - are timeless, and I'm confident I'll re-read in months to come. Finally - I love the idea of finding an outlet to sponsor those who contribute so much of the great content that I consume, in this structured way. I hope "The Magazine" is very successful, and provides an income for those who write such great material.

Jare 14y ago

Web browsers do not have diversions, badly designed web sites do. The articles in The Magazine are simple HTML and a clean CSS. If you go to the web site and read the foreword, it looks exactly like the app. The only reason I can imagine, and mind you it is a BIG reason, to make The Magazine an app is the business model.

ghshephard 14y ago
I don't know about your screen - but mine has 20+ bookmarks, 10+ open tabs, and (currently) about six different applications visible on my screen. 5 seconds ago I was on a Tab looking at the Presidential Debates before I came over to HN - 5 seconds from now I"ll be on OmniFocus, which is visible 2" to the right of the browser screen. I read the web on my laptop, differently than I consume content iPad. When I read "The Magazine" it launched the App, and it took over 100% of my iPad experience, and I spent the next 20 minutes reading through the four (excellent) articles, completely free of distraction. I'm willing to pay $2 for 8, carefully curated, selected, edited, and written articles from Marco Arment, presented to me on my iPad. Those 4 articles, on Life/Love/Technology, on Volatiles vs Stables, and the impact on how to manage engineering companies, on the concept of "Voice" and the linkBlob/Fireball format, and the schism in Geeks who Love Sports, and those who don't and really, what is the central essence of being a Geek - are timeless, and I'm confident I'll re-read in months to come. Finally - I love the idea of finding an outlet to sponsor those who contribute so much of the great content that I consume, in this structured way. I hope "The Magazine" is very successful, and provides an income for those who write such great material.