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« on: October 31, 2014, 03:00:21 am »

How Newsstand failed The Magazine, and what Apple should do

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Apple’s Newsstand was introduced with iOS 5 as a place for apps designed to deliver content in the form of a periodical—whether continuously as new articles or in the form or regularly produced issues—to gain superpowers. A Newsstand app could change its cover each issue, update images on demand in the App Store, automatically download content in the background, and have a free trial period.</p><p>
Then, after some fanfare, and major publications adopting the Newsstand format, emphasized on the iPad but available on the iPhone and iPod touch as well, Apple more or less left it to rot. In iOS 7, they hid the embarrassment of the tumbleweeds surrounding Newsstand by removing the tiny cover previews that used to dot the skeuomorphic interior, making it a flat, unchanging icon, while turning the special folder’s interior into something unexceptional, even homely.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2841061/how-newsstand-failed-the-magazine-and-what-apple-should-do.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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