Impossibility of tablet native journalism

I'm distressed by this: Mr. Salmon is a victim of severe Dunning-Kruger problems and it's painful to read the column as a result. He doesn't know jack diddly about tablets, and he thinks that he knows all about tablets. I also can't imagine that his position in old-guard media helps.

The problems he's observing are not new - the iOS developer/designer community has been grouching about them for a long time, because for us, it was patently obvious that publications like The Daily were doing a bad job of adapting their content to tablet form. They are a failure case, not "this is the only thing that can be done on tablets." For a very nice counterexample, there's Marco Arment's "The Magazine," which is a genuine digital native and solves pretty much all of Salmon's problems.

Salmon is full of it, and it's a perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger problem - he doesn't know enough to know how stupid his argument is.