The possibility of tablet-native journalism

90wpm:

Felix Salmon, Reuters:

Look at any publication you’re reading in an iPad app, and search for a story. Oh, wait — you can’t: search is basically impossible within iPad apps, which at heart are little more than heavy PDF files, weighed down with multimedia bells and whistles. Navigation is always difficult and unintuitive, and pages are never remotely as dynamic as what we’ve become used to on the web.

I would add that Marco Arment’s The Magazine is a great example of what someone can do when they understand the platform and create a nicely tailored experience for the platform, with features like Search as well as text selection.

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    Marco Arment’s The Magazine...nicely tailored experience
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