“I sometimes click on links that take me to the [New York] Post,” Dave Winer reports for Scripting News. “And sometimes I click on those links when I’m reading on my iPad.”
“Until today that meant getting an annoying interstitial page that tells me that they have an iPad app and I can get it now instead of reading the article that I came to read,” Winer reports. “Today I was told by the Post that I couldn’t read the article on the web at all. If I wanted to read the Post on my iPad I would have to download the app.”
“Okay this is bad. This is breaking the web. If no one used the iPad it wouldn’t matter. But lots of people use it,” Winer reports. “I wonder how Apple feels about this? I can’t imagine they like it. I can see the ads now: ‘Get an Android tablet to read the web.'”
“The iPad has a perfectly functional web browser. It isn’t a ‘mobile’ web browser. It has a full-size screen. It doesn’t need any accomodations to be readable, it is readable as-is,” Winer writes. “The solution is completely obvious. Apple could stop sending back information to the servers that identify me as an iPad user. Or give me a way to edit that information.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It doesn’t seem to be hurting sales. iTunes App Store “News” top paid apps at 8:45am EDT today:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]