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Rupert Murdoch Confirms Plans for Wall Street Journal iPad Application
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I want printed websites. They are the future! Facebook will be great, one update per person per day and you saved the global economy (and workplaces) a billion dollar!
You can if you use flash.
I still don't see how having an app for every newspaper/site is a good thing. So you have iBooks for books, but then you can have the kindle app (where you can read books AND the WSJ right?), and then also the WSJ app along with the NYT app and on and on. Just seems odd.
That is the ONLY newspaper I would actually buy a subscription to if it went to iPad in a good format. It's probably the only readable newspaper left in this country. After having worked in the news industry from end to end over 15 years, I can't believe any of them are still selling.
You can if you use flash.
I still don't see how having an app for every newspaper/site is a good thing. So you have iBooks for books, but then you can have the kindle app (where you can read the WSJ right?), and then also the WSJ app along with the NYT app and on and on. Just seems odd.
And get thought half way through the newspaper and have a dead battery
And get thought half way through the newspaper and have a dead battery
You don't believe that do you? Hope that's just a joke.
I am a WSJ online subscriber now and very happy with it. I consider WSJ as my 2nd favorite subscription, and Economist is my "can't live without" subscription. I would be happy to pay for WSJ on iPad and plan on doing so.
But I would cancel my existing WSJ subscription online unless they have a very good package deal discount that lets me view it on both my laptop and iPad. Same with Economist.
But I would cancel my existing WSJ subscription online unless they have a very good package deal discount that lets me view it on both my laptop and iPad. Same with Economist.
I'd rather be dragged through the streets by wild horses than have anything to do with a Murdoch rightwing-lies=news creation.
I have subscriptions to two newspapers and six magazines. In total, they cost close to $300 a year. We read them once, and then I use them for kindling. It's an enormous waste. Digital delivery makes so much more sense.
BUT -- there's the issue of permanence. If printed material dwindles away, our society will be in a position of losing documented history. I can go to any library and search through newspapers and periodicals by hand. There's something reassuringly concrete about that experience. But as has been demonstrated on the Web in general, digital data is fleeting and easily corrupted. We might be in a position of losing all historical records of the coming generations.
Second that one buddy!
The man is evil in its purest form (I'm over exaggerating, but I trust you get the point!)
Just had to turn away a guy at the door trying to sell me Sky - I was so close to saying..
"The real reason for me not wanting your excellent satellite and broadband package is because it's another slice of Murdoch!!"
Only in so far as it is two images of the same person…Does anyone think there's a resemblance?
Left: Dark Emperor of the Universe persona
Right: kindly father and loving husband to Wendi…
On the same page we have picture of Rupert Murdoch and Randall Stephenson... and now, all we need is pictures of Bush and Cheney holding an iPad to complete the impression...
Disgusting >_<
Not only that I will boycott this device for certain lack of features but also because entire thing smells of nothing but greed!
Just look at all the people involved...
Yak!
Disgusting >_<
Not only that I will boycott this device for certain lack of features but also because entire thing smells of nothing but greed!
Just look at all the people involved...
Yak!
Hope WSJ doesn't shoot itself in the foot, like with the Kindle
The WSJ price on the Kindle is outrageously high. It is MUCH cheaper to get a physical paper delivered to my house than to pay the $15 a month for an electronic version that has less content that the actual paper.
Plus when you get the physical paper, you can get the online version as well which has even more content.
The ebook format of the WSJ is a ripoff and Murdoch's pricing strategy is seriously flawed.
The WSJ price on the Kindle is outrageously high. It is MUCH cheaper to get a physical paper delivered to my house than to pay the $15 a month for an electronic version that has less content that the actual paper.
Plus when you get the physical paper, you can get the online version as well which has even more content.
The ebook format of the WSJ is a ripoff and Murdoch's pricing strategy is seriously flawed.
Can't wait for the Fox's Glen Beck show to be available for the iPad. It will make for great bathroom viewing specially for those days when you are constipated.
Their is a reason the WSJ is the only newspaper to succeed behind a pay wall -- they have unique financial stories & information you can't find elsewhere. If avg person reads the WSJ he has a chance of making some money on WS. Otherwise its putting money down on red or black and taking a spin.
Personally I get the print version, but will happily switch to the iPad version if its not more than the online version, though it will make the guy who picks up my recycled newspapers sad. This is really great news.
Personally I get the print version, but will happily switch to the iPad version if its not more than the online version, though it will make the guy who picks up my recycled newspapers sad. This is really great news.
Pricing
I have had a WSJ paid web subscription for years.
They recently raised the price.
I have had the WSJ iPhone app since day one.
They recently changed it to a paid app.
I called them up and asked for a package deal. A bundle. Anything.
They said they could not.
I let the web subscription lapse and stopped using the iPhone app.
I anticipate the iPad app would have been a third charge.
They still don't get it. Yet.
I'll gladly pay for the content - once.
I have had a WSJ paid web subscription for years.
They recently raised the price.
I have had the WSJ iPhone app since day one.
They recently changed it to a paid app.
I called them up and asked for a package deal. A bundle. Anything.
They said they could not.
I let the web subscription lapse and stopped using the iPhone app.
I anticipate the iPad app would have been a third charge.
They still don't get it. Yet.
I'll gladly pay for the content - once.
Boring!
This is so BORING!!
Joe smith will make an app for iPad
Harry Jones will make an app for iPad......................................
I guess something has to stir interest in the iPad............it does not have anything else going for it!
This is so BORING!!
Joe smith will make an app for iPad
Harry Jones will make an app for iPad......................................
I guess something has to stir interest in the iPad............it does not have anything else going for it!
so, when locked at night time maybe they can perform a tear down during daytime to uncover the quantum nature of the cpu?
Agreed the Kindle version is undesirable and uncompetitive priced w/ the other WSJ version. However the iPad version will presumably read like a newspaper and be navigable, unlike the Kindle version. Also if you subscribe to the paper version you still have to pay extra for the online version, though at a discount.
It's hard to say Murdoch's pricing strategy is flaw though since the WSJ is the only newspaper making money these days. He's doing something right.
That's funny, NewsCorp is the quite possibly the ONLY source I'd never buy a subscription from.
After having reviewed how distorted NewsCorp's made-up propaganda is I can't believe they're able to sell anything to educated adults. What a sham.
This is so BORING!!
Joe smith will make an app for iPad
Harry Jones will make an app for iPad......................................
I guess something has to stir interest in the iPad............it does not have anything else going for it!
Once you get a big fish like the WSJ all the other fishes in the sea follow behind. That is the significance of the stories about WSJ, Conde Nast, NYT, all the book pubs. The iPad is a content device and this goes a long way to starting a good inventory from which people can choose.
You can if you use flash.
I still don't see how having an app for every newspaper/site is a good thing. So you have iBooks for books, but then you can have the kindle app (where you can read books AND the WSJ right?), and then also the WSJ app along with the NYT app and on and on. Just seems odd.
You are assuming that this is they way it would be based on the current iPhone. I am assuming that since multiple publishing deals were struck regarding book content, at the time of the iPad unveiling, vs. solely the NYT that only an iBook store was announced.
I'd be willing to bet that we will see a new store make its debut by the time the iPad comes out or iPhone OS 4.0, something like iNewsstand for all of your magazines, newspapers, etc. now that may other magazine and news outlets have pledged support for the iPad.
Assuming? Yes, I guess you can call it that since these players are specifically saying they will "create apps" for the iPad. That indicates doing what already exists.
An "iNewstand" is more of an assumption than taking these peoples statements at their face value. We will see how it plays out, I am seriously curious how people will receive this thing...