I have been trying to use my iPhone for more publishing scenarios, but the limitations are bad for even the simplest things on a laptop:
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most tools don’t provide formatting options. Like a bullet lost in the WordPress app I’m using to write and publish this. Hence my astrick use.
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lack of spell check. I can’t spell. I use the red squiggly in Firefox constantly, and even that often misses things.
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publishing podcasts directly from voice memos doesn’t really work. First, all you can do is email voice memos, not upload them thru a web page (in fact, the file upload thing in HTML doesn’t seem to ever show up in the iPhone - I bet it’s disabled - nice “the real web” there). Second, even when you do email audio, it has some limit - 10 minutes or something.
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finally, I’m always afraid the app I’m using will crash and I’ll loose my text. No auto-save.
Why do I care: ubiquity. I always have my phone, and it’d be great to be able to publish more often without having to use the more “heavy weight” MacBookPro.