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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Because it comes with iOS, a lot of people think that the app they should be using for reading when they should be ignoring it and installing something else.
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Okay, fine, I can see that, but this reminds me of when I was doing web design, especially back in the 1990s and early 2000s (if not still, to this day). Internet Explorer sucks in comparison to other browsers, and yet it's still the number one browser out there -- I don't mean the best, I mean the most popularly used, of course. Although I now use Firefox as my browser, for most of the last two decades I used IE, simply because when I was designing my web pages, I wanted to see what they looked like to
most people -- even though, if I could, I would have just gotten all those "sheep" to switch to a better browser.
That ain't gonna happen, though, I'm not going to single-handedly get the whole world (that's using IE) to change -- let alone to upgrade to the latest version (which is a whole other issue/problem). And when I was using IE, I can't tell you how many times I would land on a website that would "remind" me how crappy my browser is, telling me to go download a different one -- or else just not even let me into their site at all until I did, indeed, switch to a different browser.
No, no, no, that's not the way to go about it. It might be fine for "geeks" like you and me, but I can't expect my 80+ year old mom to just up and switch to a new browser, just because some website tells her to -- heck, she'd just be left clueless about what to do, where to go, which browser to choose from.
It's actually nothing but PURE LAZINESS on the part of the designer if they can't design for the "lowest common denominator" -- and doing that, designing for that, for those people and those platforms, is what makes a person a good designer.
That's what makes me a good designer -- and I ain't gonna change that, just because someone says "iBooks sucks."
