it seems like slowly the people start to understand the problem of the ipad: the ipad is apples content cash cow. it's main purpose is to generate money. whatever you do on it: you have to pay, pay, pay, pay. I am not surprised that the publishers are planing to charge 30$ per months. remember that apple wants 30% of this money! yes, no production, no tree, no delivery, but: 30% for apple! notice that a website can be used for free, and a file COULD be downloaded for free too, but thanks to the totally closed concept of the ipad it is seems not to be possible to that way. i understand that apple wants to earn money, but their behaviour leads to the fail of the concept: the internet is cheap, efficient and everything that is offered can be reproducted unlimited. the concept should be to widen the audience/costomer base and charge less to seduce them to also join in. to charge the SAME is not the right concept. the NYT should invent a seductive price that widens their base otherwise only a few people will afford this expensive price, and the whole ipad will fail. same applies to the book and music market...
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New York Times' Print and Digital Units Reportedly Disagreeing Over iPad Content Pricing
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How is this? Even if the NYT did charge $30/month for a digital subscription, that's a considerable discount over the print version. And even if new hardcovers go for $15, that's about half of what the cloth book would cost.
In what case is Apple and the publishers charging even the same amount, let alone *more*?
You have a point, with all the hate spewing it's not beyond the realm of possibility. But I don't think that's what this guy meant, although I've been known to misinterpret what somebody says more than I like to admit.
Sighs. Stop thinking it's exclusive to the iPad. Every device will have this issue.
First, the lack of download? It's not a problem for most people that use iPhone or the iPad, it's both of a blessing and a curse. If you allow a mobile phone to download files, the risk of infection would destablize the security of your phone and you can't feel secure that your phone will never crash or give away your private information. This can be true for iPad as well, only this time it's not a phone but a portable device that people expect to work all the time. We still have no idea if Safari on iPad will be allowed to download files since iPad will be able to mount a shared folder and Safari on iPad is more advanced than the Mobile iPhone version.
Secondly, iTunes and iBook are Apple's content cash cows, but they won't make that much money. Apple clearly stated that iTunes doesn't make a lot of money for them, they exist to push hardware sales, same will be true for iBook. It's there to push iPad sales. iPad does not force you to pay for books. You want to read NYT, go and read it on Safari. Once NYT starts to paywall their site online, iPad won't be exclusive to this, every phone on the market with a browser will be required to pay to access the site. Unless Apple specifically ban Amazon, there'll be Amazon Kindle App on iPad, so there should be a competition.
Here's the thing. It seems like they can't tell the difference between digital and paper. http://blog.itag.com/56/you-are-out-of-your-minds/