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By Robert Andrews on paidContent, May 1 –
The Financial Times is preparing to kill off its iPad and iPhone app for good, signalling its final conversion from executable-app to web-app publishing.
The news publisher launched a HTML5 web app and pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store in mid-2011 but left the iOS version usable by subscribers with it already installed.
Read the full post on paidContent
By Peter Kafka on All Things D, Nov. 21, 2011
“After an initial wave of excitement about iPad magazines, some publishers have dialed back their enthusiasm. But the readers who have actually downloaded them like them quite a bit.”
“So says a survey commissioned by a publishers’ trade group: It finds that two-thirds of people who read magazines on tablets and e-readers think they’ll be spending more time with digital issues over the next year. Many of them — 46 percent — are consuming more magazines — both in print and digital form — than they did before they got their hands on an iPad.* And 63 percent of them want more digital stuff to read.”
By Matthew Panzarino on TNW, Sept. 12, 2011 – Flipboard CEO Mike McCue is on stage at Techcrunch Disrupt conference right now and he is saying some interesting things about the future of the web and the iPad. “The web will feel a lot different in 5 years. It will feel a lot like print and be monetized differently than it is currently.” Update.
McCue also said, “I think that the iPad is a superior consumption device for content on the web. It is actually the perfect device for content on the web. We’re trying to create a new type of browsing experience that is right for the iPad.”
On The Daily and other products that offer media content directly on the iPad, McCue is optimistic. “I think that there will be an opportunity to create new kinds of content companies on the iPad.”
In 2009, journalism students at the Missouri School of Journalism had to purchase iPod Touches or iPhones as a required “learning device.” Now the school is considering making purchases of iPads mandatory and the student newspaper strongly opposes the proposed idea. The paper said that the attempt to integrate the new technology failed last time and the school shouldn’t impose any new requirements.
The paper says that students should be able to decide what type of technology they use for their reporting and projects. They compared any type of forced technology purchase to advertising for Apple.
From the paper:
When administrators push every new device in Apple’s product line every couple years, the policies cease to be requirements. They aren’t even friendly recommendations — they’re endorsements.
You can read the paper’s article here.
Do you think students should have to purchase new technologies for school?
A study published by media research company knowDigital says that real iPad users find the content of The Daily to be lacking when compared to alternative sources of news available for free.
The report found that the people studied fell into two groups, ones who were tech savvy and very interested in the news and those who were less technological and less interested in news.
The report said that:
“iPad users in both camps were generally unwilling to commit to purchasing subscriptions to The Daily for a number of reasons, including some based on their specific perceptions of The Daily and some based on the idea of paying for an app on a recurring charge basis.”
Your can read the full report here.
The social magazine app Zite, which compiles stories that a user may be interested in based on their browsing & searching history, Twitter account and other habits, was sent a cease and desit letter from AP, Time, Washington Post and some other major media companies.
The letter says that Zite is using their intellectual property and needs to stop immediately (you can view the letter below). Zite launched just a few weeks ago and this marks a rough beginning for the app. You can read more about this here.
Here’s a promo video put out by Zite:
Here’s the official cease and desist letter:
The iPad has only been on the market for six months, but already it has had an impact on the way content is created and consumed. From Mashable.com. Read more. [Read more...]
Wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy writes that the advent of digital tablets will bring about the death of the print newspaper industry “in our lifetimes”:
“Make no mistake here: digital publishing, primarily through tablets, is going to sweep through the entire publishing industry. There’s no going back as in, ‘Oh, we tried digital publishing on tablets and it didn’t work out. We’re going back into print publishing. It was all just a fad.’ That is never going to happen.”
ATD, Peter Kafka | [...] That’s the conclusion of a new study sponsored by Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for Magazines” consortium that’s supposed to figure out the industry’s future.
It says iPad magazines and similar stuff will generate $3 billion in advertising and circulation revenue in 2014, assuming that the market expands beyond Apple (AAPL) to include Google (GOOG) and other competitors. But after you account for print dollars the digital versions will cannibalize, that nets out to $1.3 billion in incremental revenue. [Read more...]
By Robert Gutsche Jr. and David Schwartz
It seemed impossible.
How could we go 24 hours without touching our laptops? Could we use our smart phones only for making and answering calls? Could we really live off of an iPad for all we do?
Those were the goals, anyway – to see how much we could do over 24 hours without any other device. Just the iPad.
So, for two days last week, the two of us, both journalism educators, avid news-users and news men, attempted to use Apple’s iPad for all of our electronic communications needs.
It worked – kind of.
These, then, are the major points from our iPad experience, and our thoughts on what it could do for journalism and journalism education. [Read more...]
