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I'm not sure what took GitHub so long to _finally_ implement a mobile view for the site, but thank you. I have been waiting for this to happen for years, quite literally.

Edit: It's worth noting I've heard plenty of counter arguments to using GitHub from my phone. But I will say, sometimes I want to check out a project and possibly browse source and lo and behold I'm not at my desktop. For this reason alone, a mobile GitHub makes sense. Glad to see it at long last.

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Maybe it's a coincidence but this was a sticking point during a discussion between a couple folks at GitHub and Scott Hanselman on the HanselMinutes podcast episode aired on June 14th.

Link: http://hanselminutes.com/375/on-culture-and-remoteness-at-gi...

Likely a coincidence, but I'm a little bummed they didn't mention it if they knew it was coming. ;)

Secrets! We test things like that for quite some time before we release it. We know it's good when coworkers start asking, "Wait, this isn't shipped yet? Why not?!"

Perhaps the move to a wide, non-developer audience finally did it?

could you elaborate?

It was recently the feature of a blog post: https://github.com/blog/1557-github-flow-in-the-browser

Even with the ability to CRUD files from the browser I don't think github would fit non dev audience with well. Most normal people use word processor or a spreadsheet program, those files aren't well suited for git and you can't edit them on github

I bet they're not far off though. .docx and .xlsx files are (mostly) just zipped XML files: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

indeed. bitbucket has about a dozen. bitbeaker is pretty decent.

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/12/21/mobile-apps-for-bitbuck...

maybe bitbucket is just open-er?

Github has had mobile apps for a while:

http://mobile.github.com/

Their official Android app was released a year ago, and is open source:

https://github.com/blog/1187-github-android-app-released https://github.com/github/android

Both the comment you replied and Github's blog post are about them making their website mobile-compatible. The fact that Bitbucket has a dozen unofficial mobile applications is not really relevant, and does not tell us anything about how "open" either of the two companies are.

iOctocat for iOS is also open source - though they charge in the App Store (depending on how you feel about supporting the organization as a whole).

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