Apple and News Corp Teaming Up on Tablet-Focused News Service

[Surf Monkey]

Fixating on this as a negative because News Corps is involved is dumb. Why? Because this is the opening volley, not the final throw. The publishing industry needs someone to show them to the promised land, eg: profitable content distribution in the digital realm. If News Corps can pull this off, others will follow. That's the salient point here, not the bias of News Corps.

 

[Gemütlichkeit]

Not .01 penny to Murdoch. Not now, not ever.

This is an interesting approach, to launch an iPad-only publication. I'm hopeful that a legitimate news outlet gives it a shot sometime.

Well yeah, this is the first step. All these people voting negative are too short sighted. It's what this will become that is so neat.

 

[GeekLawyer]

Well yeah, this is the first step. All these people voting negative are too short sighted. It's what this will become that is so neat.

Good point. Very good point. I won't be in the market for this app, but I hope that market expands to include other options.

 

[Ugg]

Hope they bring this to iPhone/iPod Touch as well. Will subscribe day one if they do.

Of course they won't.

The screens are simply too small for there to be a quality user experience. Apple needs a compelling application to bring out its best qualities. There's no way they will port this to the iPhone, it would simply diminish the experience.

 

[Shagrat]

Just because they say at every commercial break that they are "fair and balanced" doesn't mean it is true.

your'e right. It isn't.

 

[MrMcD]

Of course they won't.

The screens are simply too small for there to be a quality user experience. Apple needs a compelling application to bring out its best qualities. There's no way they will port this to the iPhone, it would simply diminish the experience.

Yes, I figured this would be the response.

Truth is that I don't have much of a problem using any news app on my iPhone. The small screen has never been an issue.

If in fact they get enough subscribers from iPad users alone, that's great, but they have a chance of getting a heck of a lot more if they offer it to users of other modern iDevices.

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how long this lasts.

 

[IgnatiusTheKing]

If in fact they get enough subscribers from iPad users alone, that's great, but they have a chance of getting a heck of a lot more if they offer it to users of other modern iDevices.

Android tablets are a more likely future destination than the iPhone/iPod touch.

 

[Sam Yikin]

I despise Murdoch and what he does/is doing to journalism, but this is definitely interesting. An iPad-only newspaper would be a huge first, and possibly the first step for the future of the news industry.

 

[Foxer]

Sounds fine to me. I'm smart enough to be able to watch any news program and filter out the bias. Watching FNC and getting that line is no better or worse than reading the NYT, especially the op-ed page. And all that said, NewsCorp owns the Wall Street Journal which is still the best paper in the nation.

I've never completely understood the rabid, non-sensical response that Fox News engenders. Why are people so angry that right wing people have a place to go get news after all these years? No one HAS to watch the channel. And if some people are dumb enough to blindly accept what they hear, are they any worse than the idiots who think the NPR is the word of God? At least FNC doesn't need state support to stay on the air.

Plus, anything that Apple can do to mediate its image as a refuge for dirt-munching, tree-hugging druids can't be a bad move...

 

[Thex1138]

If...

...it's anything like fauxNewz... then it will be jammed in a narrow market.. and a failure globally.

 

[MrMcD]

The best innovation here is the somewhat reasonable pricing. Now I haven't seen the content, so maybe it's a little overpriced or a little underpriced, but $1.00 a week not that outrageous, it's in the ballpark to get people to sign up in sufficient numbers to sustain.

Quite true.

If this in fact turns out to be a high quality "paper", it could be a hit. The price is just right.

It costs me 15 dollars a month for the WSJ (now owned by News Corp) on my Kindle. The NYT is 20 a month. Granted, I realize that I'm saving a fair amount of money compared to the paper subscriptions, but still, it all adds up.

 

[3goldens]

handshake with the devil himself!

Shame on Jobs for getting in bed with Murdoch!

 

[mutantteenager]

Fox and Apple occupy the same space, talk about 'open and great product' in reality get closed minds and short-changed. This pairing makes perfect sense.

 

[CFreymarc]

You couldn't pay me enough to read Uncle Rupert's bilge.

The joke is on you. Others are paying him so they can read it. Got back to your wake and bake.

 

[k2director]

Most of you are complaining about "bias" with Fox, but I'm curious where you don't find bias. The New York Times? Washington Post? LA Times? MSNBC? Please, those are as biased as Fox is, just the other way.

 

[CFreymarc]

Shame on Jobs for getting in bed with Murdoch!

IMO, Steve Jobs is the corporate America's most well hidden conservative.

While he does lip service to the liberal masses who consume his products and lets them practice their rights, he is a lot like Johny Carson. That is he let's the self righteous talk about their escapades and have them trip up from their own karma. The reality is the left has done nothing for him politically except wanting to tax him more for his success.

Steve has learned from the mistakes of his Berkeley days and psychiatric types that tried to hijack the company during the success of the Apple ][ and development of the first Mac in the early 80's. One thing Scully did well when in Cupertino is scrub out the mental health / progressive types out of the Apple board room. Steve grew up, came back and matured. Looking at his board, you see the whole political spectrum there from Al Gore to a former CEO of the military industrial complex.

You look into most of the conservative think tanks and media (American Heritage, Fox, Rush, Sean, etc. etc.) you see they all run Macs. This partnership only makes sense when you know who has drinks with him up in Woodside.

 

[CFreymarc]

...it's anything like fauxNewz... then it will be jammed in a narrow market.. and a failure globally.

Quit the bong hits for a few days and see reality. Fox on the International level is doing fine. He virtually demonized in Australia for exposing many government programs that falsified the violent crime increase after the gun ban down there.

The only think Murdock and company is guilty of is exposing the truth on those who wish to try to enslave and control us by passing on an illusion of freedom in free government services.

Don't like it, don't read it. There are more of us than you.

 

[nagromme]

I get a certain amount of entertainment from News Corp (Family Guy, Fringe). But News? From News Corp? This is the weirdest idea I’ve heard all day.

 

[GeekLawyer]

Most of you are complaining about "bias" with Fox, but I'm curious where you don't find bias. The New York Times? Washington Post? LA Times? MSNBC? Please, those are as biased as Fox is, just the other way.

It couldn't be further from the point of this article, but that's simply not true. People try to impute a false equivalence where none exists. News Corp gives to one political party in this country and uses its cable "news" network to push that party's agenda. That doesn't happen with any other outlet. At all. There is no equivalence. The scale doesn't balance.

 

[CFreymarc]

I've never completely understood the rabid, non-sensical response that Fox News engenders. Why are people so angry that right wing people have a place to go get news after all these years?

It is pretty simple and sad. To really understand the left, you need to treat them like children that take from the family and refuse to contribute.

A child steals a cookie from the cookie jar, they feel guilty about it they say they need it or are entitled to it. You say they took the cookie and they will deny, get upset and then try to make you look bad in front of mutual friends to hide their crime.

Replace cookie with tax money and you see how they operate. Now they just need their good spanking.

 

[vipergts2207]

The joke is on you. Others are paying him so they can read it. Got back to your wake and bake.

Quit the bong hits for a few days and see reality. Fox on the International level is doing fine. He virtually demonized in Australia for exposing many government programs that falsified the violent crime increase after the gun ban down there.

The only think Murdock and company is guilty of is exposing the truth on those who wish to try to enslave and control us by passing on an illusion of freedom in free government services.

Don't like it, don't read it. There are more of us than you.

Yes, everyone who doesn't watch fox news spends all day hitting a bong. Who cares if they did anyway.

Just because there are more people who watch fox news, doesn't make them anymore intelligent or informed.

In fact, people who watch fox news are much less informed when compared to people who get their news from other outlets.

http://people-press.org/report/319/...e-changed-by-news-and-information-revolutions

 

[GeekLawyer]

Now they just need their good spanking.

Kinky.

 

[redkamel]

I would have imagined Apple would never partner with NewsCorp. They should have culled the best and brightest bloggers as contributors and formed a more open new agency...there are people out there, who are very knowledgable about subjects, know what they are talking about, and aren't batsh*t crazy. I am sure places like the journal Oildrum (for energy policy) exist for almost every field.

Unfortunately i imagine actual news op/eds from educated, informed people with well developed and supported opinions does not sell as well as know names, puff pieces, and yellow/partisan journalism. And some of them are seen as "far left" because they tell the truth about certain topics.

 

[yg17]

I wouldn't wipe my arse with a Murdoch publication. It's a shame that Apple is partnering with "News" Corp.

 

[pmjoe]

It is pretty simple and sad. To really understand the left, you need to treat them like children that take from the family and refuse to contribute.

A child steals a cookie from the cookie jar, they feel guilty about it they say they need it or are entitled to it. You say they took the cookie and they will deny, get upset and then try to make you look bad in front of mutual friends to hide their crime.

Replace cookie with tax money and you see how they operate. Now they just need their good spanking.

And when the right wing steals from the cookie jar they claim they earned it by working harder than their "pinko communist, elitist" left wing neighbor who appears to work just as hard by everyone else's standards. The right winger insists it was their cookie in the first place even though a bunch of other people helped grow the ingredients (on farm subsidies), and they used that new-fangled electricity "big" government "forced" them to have in their rural home to bake it, and that socialist fire company came and put out the stove fire a year back.

Then they claim don't worry - just give a big tax cut to the mega-cookie corp in China on our credit card and we can all have cookies, and if not, well, the crumbs will trickle down to everyone else.