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Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: RSS feeds beat any branded iPhone or iPad news app

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Patrick Smith: "despite their convenience, apps are a limited way of publishing information. The self-constructed, community-based, open, Google-able news eco-system gives the serious media consumer a better all-round experience than the closed off system represented by the iPad and App Store, and all it takes is a little effort to make the most of it."

Interfacelab: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

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"The only real differentiation between the Wired application and a multimedia CD-ROM is the delivery mechanism ... what we’ve really ended up with is a glorified slide show. ... I actually think it’s a huge step backwards and I think the wrong people are working on the problem – just like the wrong people were working on the web problem back in the day. ... By the time an article is published in Time, I’ve read six or seven different takes on the same story on the web well before it hits the newsstands. I don’t think that’s a unique or new insight. But now you want me to download 500MB a month just so some print designer can have pixel perfect layouts with custom fonts?"

GigaOm: Is the Mobile Pendulum Swinging From Apps to the Web?

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"Taptu forecast in December of last year that more than 500,000 touch-friendly websites would exist by the end of 2010. According to its latest count, there are 440,100 such sites — an annualized growth rate of 232 percent. In contrast, Apple’s iTunes App Store holds roughly 185,000 software titles, which translates into a 144 percent annual growth rate."

SteveOuting.com: iPad spending: Don’t sell me single app publications!

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"Time has now fixed this blunder and offers a Time iPad app for free. From within the app, the iPad user can purchase digital versions of the magazine for $4.99. Old issues are stored in the cloud for later reading, and there’s only one Time icon on the iPad screen. But pricing should be more realistic, I believe, and subscriptions offered."