I think @Marcoarment misses the point: “Did we just rip off Marco Arment and The Magazine?” – Marco.org
I love Marco's work and I love the idea of "The Magazine" and I even asked Marco to feature him in one of the next issues of the Productive! Magazine (still waiting for his answer). However Marco is missing the point with his criticism of the "Type Engine".
One one hand he's right - they ripped off too much and should have really added something more from themselves. Totally agree there. On the other hand though, we need these kind of software packages (and I'm actually thinking of building mine for the Productive! Magazine) that let you easily publish a magazine. We need to democratize magazines and it's not only about the content. Content is king... but the delivery mechanism is Queen... and current "magazine apps" let you build magazine issues in Adobe InDesign... and later each issue weights 50MB
Marco, it's both - The Magazine is great because of the content AND the software. Those two things are needed to "reinvent" the magazines. My 2 cents.
Posted on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
