Top publishing app for iPAD
More companies are announcing their applications for the launch of the iPAD. Given that this device has been positioned as ebook reader, ebook related apps are not going to be surprising. Ave!Comics has recently announced that they are working on a iPAD app that will be ready at the launch of the iPAD. This app will allow users to download mobile comics for viewing purposes. According to the news releases, there are going to be social networking and sharing functions as well although there are no news on that front yet.
For me personally, seeing the social network and sharing functions is what I am excited about, not the fact that you can read mobile comics on your device. Media on one new platform should not look and feel like the previous platforms. Once it is too similar, it runs into the problems of people comparing the two types of content and eventually preferring the traditional way the content is delivered. Media for a new platform should think about the new experiences that the new platform can provide and use that to power the kind of innovation applications that will take off.
Case in point: ringtones. While MTV and ringtones can be see as the same type of media i.e. music, they are quite different from each other. MTV is made for TV while ringtones are made for the mobile. Can MTV be played on mobile? sure but it will not as popular as a native content which is ringtone.
Hence, for the iPAD, I want to see how new types of applications and content have been developed to take advantage of this new device’s capability. Mobile comics is fine but what is beyond that. Can we break free of the definition of comics and come up with some new media that has grahppcial componenets in it and yet nt look like the traditional comics?
Finally, I want to see how innovations can happen to iPad accessories. When the iPhone launched, there were a lot of accessories that accompany it such as battery, memory enhancers, headset covering etc. I expect iPad to have the same impact as well.
More to come at top iPAD apps.
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