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Originally Posted by DaleDe
I would expect it was a long wait for the original Marvin version as well but you just didn't know you were waiting  |
That wasn't a "wait", that was sheer
despair. Ever since it became obvious that Amazon bought Stanza only so that it can kill it, with no intention (beyond empty verbal declarations) to match Kindle with Stanza in terms of features... well, I for one thought that the iOS platform was
doomed, and that we would possibly
never get to see quality reading software on iOS again.
That Amazon only bought Stanza to kill it, became painfully obvious at the latest with the initial iPad release, which was in the spring of 2010. Yes, there were some
perfunctory Stanza updates for the iPad to start with, but only a year later, in 2011, I think, Amazon flatly refused to update Stanza any longer. That's when we got into
real trouble.
So, yes, it was a very long "wait", around 2 years at least, I guess... and when Marvin popped out of the blue in December 2012, it was a revelation.
By the way, a similar analogy is email software in iOS. I thought we would
never get to see quality email software in iOS, and that we would have to put up with Apple's crappy "Mail" app for the rest of our lives. When, suddenly, in February 2013 (I think), the fabulous
Mailbox app appeared, just as unexpectedly as Marvin, and it's the finest email software I have
ever used on
any platform, including Mac OS and Windows.
So, the last year, or 9 months, have been fantastic for iOS in this regard. I perceive both Marvin and Mailbox as "genius prodigies". They are both still beset with many flaws and deficiencies, but was a 5-year-old Mozart the same as the 30-year-old Mozart? No. He was a
child prodigy. That's what Marvin and Mailbox are currently. It must be our hope that both of them will one day reach truly Mozart-esque proportions. It must be embarrassing for the competition, though, that "child prodigies" are, even in these earliest stages, already
far better than all the old-timers.
