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Title: Why Newsstand needs to go away Post by: HCK on April 30, 2014, 02:00:18 pm Why Newsstand needs to go away
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Newsstand was one of iOS 5’s banner features (http://www.macworld.com/article/1163000/up_close_with_ios_5_newsstand.html) when it was introduced back in 2011, but its time has come and gone. What was intended to be a special collection of apps has, instead, become a second-class collection. That’s why it would be better for everyone concerned—Apple, users, app developers (http://www.marco.org/2013/11/29/ios7-newsstand), and publishers (including Macworld)—if Newsstand just vanished.</p><p> Newsstand was introduced as a way to add some special features to the content apps offered by magazine and newspaper publishers. This special class of apps live in a dedicated folder. In iOS 5 and 6, that folder looked like a wooden bookshelf—which is not a newsstand at all, a metaphorical quibble mooted by the replacement of the wood with a formless gray background in iOS 7.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2148306/why-newsstand-needs-to-go-away.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Why Newsstand needs to go away (http://www.macworld.com/article/2148306/why-newsstand-needs-to-go-away.html#tk.rss_all) |