Web or app? Sites are caught in the middle of competing visions
Businesses grapple with a fragmenting online world as Apple focus on apps and Google pushes for mobile Web
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APPLE wants mobile devices to be filled with apps. Google supports a world where people browse the Web for most things. Now websites are increasingly caught in the middle of those competing visions.
Consider Atavist Magazine, an online publication run by Evan Ratliff. To attract the broadest audience possible, Mr Ratliff said that he felt pressured to do everything twice: Once for the Web and once for the magazine's app. But maintaining a website and getting readers for it, while building an audience of iPhone users with an app, took time - too much time, Mr Ratliff said. So last month, Atavist shut down its app and decided to publish only on the Web.
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