a:61:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7478";s:14:"comment_author";s:11:"Chris Boese";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:25:"christine.boese@gmail.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:25:"http://christineboese.net";s:15:"comment_content";s:1465:"I'm a bit confused here at the conflation of the App store as a vehicle for distribution and the iPad as a device.

By all means, boycott the App Store distibution method until Apple gets its head screwed on straight. Yes, that is a key market, but one can make nominal apps that simply redirect to a browser-like experience.

The main advantage of the iPad is its device-ness. Don't be distracted by the momentary fad of the distribution audience as a closed and walled garden. The iPad runs Safari. 

The reason the internet is so robust is not because of walled gardens, but because of the open publishing model of the Web itself, HTTP, the hyperlink, the Universal Resource Locator. ANY publisher (especially Murdoch) divorces him or herself from that basic model at their peril, and risks being a platform of the moment, until the crowd moves on, or until the web itself supercedes the moment and eats the garden.

The power of the iPad is its portability, the resolution of its screen, and the fact that it is a powerful on-ramp to the Internet at large. The reduced functionality of "apps" is an absurd limitations. 

You know that browsers will be/are reading epubs with ease, right? What's the problem? The internet routes around blockages (even if the blockage is Apple) with ease, and has yet to be defeated. Trust the robustness of the basic model, and trust the iPad to deliver a crisp screen and the ability to display interactive documents.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ip";s:13:"76.15.146.245";s:10:"user_agent";s:111:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 Glue/4.5 GTB7.1";s:8:"referrer";s:65:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/why-apple-and-publishing-dont-mix/";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:65:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/why-apple-and-publishing-dont-mix/";s:9:"user_role";s:0:"";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:11:"POST_author";s:11:"Chris Boese";s:10:"POST_email";s:25:"christine.boese@gmail.com";s:8:"POST_url";s:25:"http://christineboese.net";s:12:"POST_comment";s:1465:"I'm a bit confused here at the conflation of the App store as a vehicle for distribution and the iPad as a device.

By all means, boycott the App Store distibution method until Apple gets its head screwed on straight. Yes, that is a key market, but one can make nominal apps that simply redirect to a browser-like experience.

The main advantage of the iPad is its device-ness. Don't be distracted by the momentary fad of the distribution audience as a closed and walled garden. The iPad runs Safari. 

The reason the internet is so robust is not because of walled gardens, but because of the open publishing model of the Web itself, HTTP, the hyperlink, the Universal Resource Locator. ANY publisher (especially Murdoch) divorces him or herself from that basic model at their peril, and risks being a platform of the moment, until the crowd moves on, or until the web itself supercedes the moment and eats the garden.

The power of the iPad is its portability, the resolution of its screen, and the fact that it is a powerful on-ramp to the Internet at large. The reduced functionality of "apps" is an absurd limitations. 

You know that browsers will be/are reading epubs with ease, right? What's the problem? The internet routes around blockages (even if the blockage is Apple) with ease, and has yet to be defeated. Trust the robustness of the basic model, and trust the iPad to deliver a crisp screen and the ability to display interactive documents.";s:11:"POST_submit";s:12:"Post Comment";s:20:"POST_comment_post_ID";s:4:"7478";s:19:"POST_comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:26:"POST_akismet_comment_nonce";s:10:"b990ea0266";s:23:"POST_subscribe-reloaded";s:3:"yes";s:15:"SERVER_SOFTWARE";s:79:"Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4";s:11:"REQUEST_URI";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:14:"CONTENT_LENGTH";s:4:"1770";s:12:"CONTENT_TYPE";s:33:"application/x-www-form-urlencoded";s:13:"DOCUMENT_ROOT";s:42:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com";s:17:"GATEWAY_INTERFACE";s:7:"CGI/1.1";s:11:"HTTP_ACCEPT";s:63:"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8";s:19:"HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET";s:30:"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:12:"gzip,deflate";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:14:"en-us,en;q=0.5";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:15:"HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE";s:3:"115";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:65:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/why-apple-and-publishing-dont-mix/";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:111:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 Glue/4.5 GTB7.1";s:4:"PATH";s:13:"/bin:/usr/bin";s:12:"QUERY_STRING";s:0:"";s:15:"REDIRECT_STATUS";s:3:"200";s:11:"REMOTE_ADDR";s:13:"76.15.146.245";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"44771";s:14:"REQUEST_METHOD";s:4:"POST";s:15:"SCRIPT_FILENAME";s:63:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SCRIPT_NAME";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SERVER_ADDR";s:14:"67.225.237.100";s:12:"SERVER_ADMIN";s:37:"webmaster@davidhewson.davidhewson.net";s:11:"SERVER_NAME";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"SERVER_PORT";s:2:"80";s:15:"SERVER_PROTOCOL";s:8:"HTTP/1.1";s:16:"SERVER_SIGNATURE";s:133:"<address>Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at davidhewson.com Port 80</address>
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