Amazon updated a Wednesday, giving users entrance to their periodical subscriptions and cloud-stored papers for a initial time. Previously, users could usually use a Kindle app to review -- and, before , buy -- ebooks on those devices.
Having entrance to papers stored on Amazon is handy, though iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners will find tiny reason to start reading their newspapers and magazines by a [iTunes link]. That's because:
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1) They're expected already profitable to get entrance to their favorite newspapers and magazines on those devices, or removing them for giveaway as partial of their imitation subscriptions, and therefore have no inducement to compensate for a second subscription by Amazon.
2) Most major magazines already have designated apps for a iPhone and iPad, and those apps (in many cases) offer a higher user experience. They're optimized for both shade sizes, and come with a horde of bells and whistles -- links, slideshows, audio interviews, interactive graphics -- that aren't accessible in a Kindle app version.
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Take a demeanour during The Atlantic on a Kindle iPhone app, for instance, that has no navigation and probably no formatting. Leading images infrequently drain into a content of a prior story, and bullet points, italics and rise sizes aren't rendered during all:
And here's Popular Mechanics on a iPad app (left dual images) and on a Kindle iPad app (right image). Note how a story has been pided into dual pages on a magazine's iPad app (left) to make it easier to read:
The refurbish will be useful to one really tiny subset of users: Those who already allow to newspapers and magazines by a Kindle Store, and would like to have their periodicals synced between their Kindle device and their Apple devices. Those users can now take in a few pages on their iPhones in line for lunch, and collect adult during a same place on their Kindle Fires during home, for a cost of dual subscriptions.
Of course, this is not to contend that Amazon won't ever be means to build a useful newsstand on for iOS devices, or that repository publishers won't correct adult and start bundling all of their digital subscriptions together, including those offering by a Kindle Store. But for now, there's zero for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners to get too vehement about.
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