The Ultimate Bible Software Application
LJ posted on his blog another perspective of what we posted on earlier in the week about a Hybrid Bible Reader and what that would look like. Given his perspective of working with Logos and WordSearch a good deal, he brings some needed understanding to the table as to how this can work. Here's a snippet of this post:
...As an avid user of Bible software (circa 1999 or so & using WORDsearch 5 and e-Sword), I've come to find that there are a lot of things that I like in one application, but is not found in another application. Then, there are also those things that I don't like in one software that isn't an issue in the other. Throw into the mix the world of Web 2.0 and you have an entirely different ballgame. Now with the likes of eBible.com and others, one is easily able to share their thoughts on the Word with the world at large, layman and scholar alike. So, just imagine if all of the good was combined into a single application, or at least brought as much of the best of all the worlds together, that's what I mean when I say the "Ultimate Bible Software Application...
Read the rest of the post at the Trailblazin Ministries blog.
Labels: Logos, mobile, software, tech, WordSearch
posted by Antoine @ 3/03/2008 08:00:00 AM
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4 Comments:
While the "ultimate Bible software" is fine for a desktop application, I think Mobile needs to concentrate on minimalism to a certain extent. Quick access to what you want to find, and a good reading experience on the go. Though it will certainly be interesting to see the YouVersion-like features mixed into a desktop/mobile app.
While I agree with you that mobile tech has a good but of direct, purpose-drivenness about it, for many in our audience, and in the mobile world, their context of mobile technology appears on the larger screens and beefer hardware of a laptop. Dismissing what works in those paridigms would dismiss what it means to have mobile technology - that is an accessible technology that can move with you according to your lifestyle.
This fits that definition pretty well, and gives us whom are mobile in tablets and smartphones something of a bar to aim for when it comes to features (once the basics are done right).
I think Laridian is the one developer on to this. I can read my Bible's, commentaries, etc on my iPhone, Laptop, and PDA with my bookmarks and highlights syncing between pda & desktop w/ iPHone syncing to come. All in all, I love my mobile lifestyle adn the content & systems are only getting better!
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