Even Publishers Hate iPad Magazine Apps

MIT Tech Review’s Jason Pontin (a charming guy) on iPad magazine apps: “We wasted $124,000 on outsourced software development. We fought amongst ourselves, and people left the company. There was untold expense of spirit. I hated every moment of our experiment with apps, because it tried to impose something closed, old, and printlike on something open, new, and digital.”

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Even Publishers Hate iPad Magazine Apps
Matt Buchanan

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