Previous News07.19.2011 - Terrence Marks:Do you regularly read webcomics on a PDA, phone or other mobile device?I had been considered building mobile sites for our comics. It's the way of the future, according to people who get paid to tell us what the way of the future might be. Personally, I've used my phone to read comics a couple of times but didn't really see the appeal. Of course, I spend most of my day either in front of a computer or too busy to read comics.
Yes, including this one. Yes - if they have mobile-optimized sites. Yes - if they have an app. No - I'm not interested in reading comics on a mobile device No - I'm theoretically interested but haven't got around to it. No - I don't have a mobile device. Thing is, the point of the site isn't to show me the comics. I know what they look like before we upload them. My goal is to make the viewing experience as convenient as possible for you, the reader. Right now, under 3% of our traffic comes from mobile devices, if I'm doing the math right. There were two possibilities: either only 3% of our readers wanted to read our comics that way, or more people wanted to but the site needed to be made more mobile-friendly to accomodate them.
I'm going to guess that it was the first one. It looks like the technology isn't mature enough right now for mobile devices to be a viable alternate platform. I'm sure that will change as time goes by, but for now, that's where we are.