1. ➶ Elliot Jay Stocks on Adobe's Digital Publishing mistake

    Elliot makes some great points about the expense involved with Adobe’s Digital Publishing ‘solution’. As has been noted by Chris Phin:

    Tablet publishing is a gold rush. Adobe can name its price.

    That’s awesome for Adobe, but honestly the Adobe solution is mediocre. At best. Not only is it near-on impossible to actually share content from these magazines, but the Adobe ‘Reader’ app that powers most iPad magazines is a complete shit-sandwich.

    • Each issue is 500MB plus in a monolithic download.
    • The Adobe app is completely unaware that iOS now offers multitasking, and not only fails to download in the background but also doesn’t install in the background.
    • As soon as you start downloading an issue, the ‘View’ button for any of the existing issues that you’ve purchased are greyed out, meaning that you’re forced to sit at the app homescreen for 5+ minutes. Staring at a god-damn progress bar. Hoping that the app will work if you leave the iPad unattended and it goes to sleep.

    Fucking good job, Adobe.

    Posted on Monday April 25th, 2011