It's nothing new for news websites- a reader app that displays information on a website in much easier to digest formats than the default layout. For my app design project, I am designing an app reader for the video game news website TheMittani.com. As a Goon and a contributor to the site's content (which mainly focuses around the games Planetside 2, World of Tanks, and EVE Online) the nonexistence of an app for this purpose (reading site content in easy and smooth ways) is quite frustrating.
But enough of my reasons for the development of this app. A more pressing matter garners my attention now- if a lowly site such as this, one that sees around 20,000 unique connections a month from an overwhelmingly gamer-centered audience, requires an app for a mobile view of its site, what does that say about other small sites? Does everything need an app? Should the app store be inundated with reader apps for news sites and forums? Is there a limit or line that must be crossed to necessitate the creation of an app?
And if there is, what is it? It seems almost wrong that it should require one or a few small dedicated few to develop ease-of-use apps for sites such as this. Perhaps it is simply the way of the world, but it seems like app development, rather than being the secretive science that it is, should get a bit simpler and easier to access.
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