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Apple iTV — A Big Change?

Kevin Rose (founder of Digg) has a well-informed, short blog on the prospects of Apple’s iTV, which he suggests will be announced in September. According to Rose:

The rumor: Apple will be releasing a revamped/renamed version of their ‘Apple TV’ set-top box, called ‘iTV’. The box will run the Apple iOS (same as the iPhone/iPad), and be priced around $99.
(Kevin Rose Why Apple’s iTV Will Change Everything).

The only quarrel that I have with Rose’s piece is his … Keep Reading

Nick Bilton’s Grammatical Clanger

Nick Bilton who blogs for the New York Times has dropped and smashed the front of his Apple-loaned iPhone 4. Here it is a complete, fragmentary, mess.

I thought it would work beautifully until I dropped my iPhone on the concrete on Tuesday evening. The phone’s glass became a Humpty Dumpty look-a-like.

I’m still trying to figure out whose fault it was? Of course, I’m mostly to blame for being clumsy and dropping the phone. But is it also Apple’s

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Apps and Print Subscriptions

Digital editions aren’t necessarily an alternative to print editions – in many ways they’re complementary. Lots of print subscribers like to be able to search a publication’s archive or read the latest issue in the most convenient format at that moment, whether that’s an iPad app in a coffee shop or a waterproof (perhaps slightly damp) paper edition in the bath.
We’ve long encouraged this kind of “combined” subscription by allowing publishers to offer their print subscribers access to the
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The Enviable Attractiveness of the Magazine Format

Flipboard had a great introduction a few weeks ago”A Prettier Way to Browse the Social Web” (NYT). Robert Scoble went overboard “Overall this is an extraordinary iPad app and one that will shake the media world for quite some time”. Scoble may be partly to blame for the amazing user response which promptly swamped and downed the servers which drive this clever and rather beautiful app. For a while new subscribers have been filtered and phased in through … Keep Reading

Why the iPad is Still Really Good for Magazines

It seems that quite a few of the big magazine companies are unhappy about the way that Apple is managing, ‘controlling’ if you like, the app store. First there was an article in Folio magazine, then this was picked up by All Things Digital and then the blogosphere erupted. According to Folio magazine:

…. getting an app approved can be a frustrating ordeal, especially when publishers find out at the 11th hour that their proposal has been rejected (in what

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