Typo? Freudian slip?
Lost Remote | News and media on the iPad: A mixed bad so far
This is a good blog entry, though. I don't have an iPad (yet) but I see the same phenomena they discuss, using the iPhone. Being the new junkie that I am, early on, I downloaded a number of news and magazine apps - some local news, Rachel Maddow, HuffPost, and a few others. Quite frankly, I prefer MobileRSS for reading any of it. It lets me tweet or e-mail or save to Instapaper and I'm happy. Perhaps I'll feel differently when using the iPad but I rather doubt it.
The advantage of the iPad is a big enough screen to be able to read these things comfortably. Safari will do just fine for reading the blogs and new sites I normally surf, and if they address the Flash issue, all the better (although lack of Flash hasn't yet been devastating for me on the iPhone). I see no reason to get all a dither about what the iPad is not, for new media. Can you still read what you want? Can you disseminate it effectively? Is it it portable and easy on the eye? Have we maintained the content? If so, to me, it's a good thing.
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