I think that may well be the case on the iPhone & iPod touch but having read all of the blurb on the app store for Articles for iPad and looked at all the screen shots, the only advantages of Articles that I can see for the iPad is that it provides full screen landscape viewing and it has a nice wooden backdrop, other than that, the functionality is close to identical and the interface for Wikipanion on the iPad is fine for me. I think I'll be saving my £2.99 for beer this time...
At least we have both :-) Stephen On 14 Apr 2011, at 17:17, Catherine Hunt wrote: > £2.99 sounds like a bargain for Articles. Wikipanion is a clunky design by > comparison. I don't have an iPad, but Articles has pride of place on my > iPhone home screen. > > Best wishes > Catherine > > On 14 Apr 2011, at 17:03, Stephen Watson wrote: > >> Yes, I'd looked at that a while ago but had forgotten it. It does look >> lovely and may combine some of WikiHood's functionality as well. I will take >> a 2nd look though as I use Wikipanion a lot and thought it's nicely done and >> very serviceable Articles does have an extra interface appeal factor. >> Decisions, decisions ... >> >> It's £2.99 for the iPad version though. >> >> Stephen >> >> On 14 Apr 2011, at 16:30, Rob Beattie wrote: >> >>> I'm a big fan of free, but I really prefer Articles (£1.79) to >>> Wikipanion - the interface is so much nicer. >>> >>> Rob >>> ----------------- >>> Rob Beattie >>> Freelance writer and book author >>> www.robbeattie.com >>> 07769 902820 >>> Twitter: @robbeattie >>> >>> >>> >>> On 14 April 2011 16:19, Stephen Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> My 2p: >>>> >>>> 'Serious' >>>> ----------- >>> <snip>> >>>> Wikipanion, Discover and Wikihood - all free and all excellent >>>> >>> <snip> >> >> >> "As a nation we chose to spend post-war prosperity on consumer trash and >> Trident submarines. Other nations did likewise. Now, like spoiled children >> who cannot believe they’ve been caught, we refuse to face the music." - >> Alistair McIntosh ...the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
