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02 Fev 2010
Microcontent are NOT files
I always had the feeling that the iPhone was much more a MicroContent device than a regular PC. However I was not able to grasp why I felt this way. Thanks to this article by Dan Moren, I know now why: the iPhoen has abstracted away the idea of files. There is no longer a need for file browsers. We now only have MicroContent clients.
The iPad will extend this idea even further. Each file will be part of it’s own application. This is very similar to the idea of MicroContent. As you see I am reluctant to call this MicroContent as we are talking about large and complex content (presentations, spreadsheets or documents) if we talk about the iWork apps. One of the similarities are the visual aspect. Microcontent is visually easy to comprehend. Apple stresses always this visual aspect as well when they talk about presentations or spreadsheets.
I still have to ponder this a bit more…