LinkedIn's App Is...

[Peter M. Brigham, MD]

On May 2, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Recently, Mike Kerner wrote:
> 
>> Interesting article from VentureBeat on LinkedIn's mobile app.  It was
>> built in........
>> http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/02/linkedin-ipad-app-engineering/
> 
> An interesting (and important, IMO) comment at the end:
> 
> “You can’t take a mobile app and just scale it up to tablet or desktop,” he
> said. “A lot of responsive design is building one site that works
> everywhere, and that works for websites. But it’s bad for apps… You have to
> come up with a completely different design because of the use case.”

It begins to sound as if Edinburgh's whole approach to coping with multiple platforms might be trying pound in a screw with a wrench. I hope they're not heading in the wrong direction.

-- Peter

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