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by brusch64 3917 days ago
But isn't this an "App" which shouldn't have been an App in the first place (I think they write something like this in the article).

That's really one of my pet peeves. I don't like installing apps just to read an article. A good mobile site is much preferable in my opinion. But I've started a little bit later than most to the smart phone game and I'm a little bit quirky - so that may be just me.
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simonh 3917 days ago
If only there was a single native app, preferably pre-installed on the phone, that was specifically designed to download content from publishers around the world and render it dynamically on a range of device screen sizes. It could be publisher neutral and allow bookmarking, and maybe let you have multiple pages open at a time. Nah, it'd never catch on. Native apps for publishing are dead ;)
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waylandsmithers 3917 days ago
Exactly, and that's why it makes that a publisher would use the web for its original purpose-- the transfer of documents. Especially now with the News app on iOS, I don't see many reasons why a publisher would need to go to the trouble of maintaining its own suite of apps.
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