How much are you willing to pay for magazine and newspaper subscriptions on the iPad? That’s a question publishers like the New York Times are literally fighting over, according to Valley Wag.
In their specific case, the old guard in “print” want to charge $20-$30 a month to access the paper online via the New York [...]
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The New York Times had a huge, gushing, front-page-of-the-business-section story this weekend about the iPhone App Store titled Apple’s Game Changer, Downloading Now.
Now the App Store, with over 100,000 apps and 2 billion downloads is a runaway success, no doubt about it, but given the continued problems with developer relations and capricious approval processes, seeing [...]
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Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times, when discussing the evolution/revolution underway in the print media industry, mentioned off-the-record and in passing:
“I’m hoping we can get the newsroom more actively involved in the challenge of delivering our best journalism in the form of Times Reader, iPhone apps, WAP, or the impending [...]
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With the return of Steve Jobs to Apple comes the return of Fake Steve to the interwebs. Fake Steve also returns to being bitingly satirical, something that had been lacking before its own hiatus. Recent gems include the excoriation of the New York Times, and lambasting Palm (twice) for focusing on Apple rather than the [...]
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Earlier this month, TiPb threw it’s hat in the ring of next generation handset speculation by predicting Apple would announce an iPhone HD in 2009. It just made sense to us, and apparently it’s beginning to make sense to others as well.
What happened? New York Times writer John Markoff dropped a rumor bomb:
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Seems it wasn’t a hair that broke the blogerati’s back, it was an App. Or more precisely, it was Apple’s denial of the Podcaster App that let loose the floodgates of negative internet reaction. Or even more precisely, it is the continued lack of certainty among developers as to what can and will be denied [...]
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