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Rupert Murdoch Confirms Plans for Wall Street Journal iPad Application
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Capability and profit
What I don't get is everyone's assumption (yours, and that of the macrumors headline writer) that WSJ will in fact develop a native app. Perhaps it will, but all that the story says is that the paper will be "present" on the iPad. This could be via iBooks or some similar app for magazine subscriptions.
But what exactly do you not get? The desirability of a more capable (your phrase) presentation of one's primary business product?
What I don't get is everyone's assumption (yours, and that of the macrumors headline writer) that WSJ will in fact develop a native app. Perhaps it will, but all that the story says is that the paper will be "present" on the iPad. This could be via iBooks or some similar app for magazine subscriptions.
But what exactly do you not get? The desirability of a more capable (your phrase) presentation of one's primary business product?
Top Secrete
No, they worry that someone will leak to MacRumors the three unannounced killer apps, or to Google the video conferencing, teleport, and cotton candy features.
By the way, I hope that the Pad does not in fact require Secrete clearance.
haha, Apple thinks its the NSA, this new Maxipad is state level Secrete Clearance on a need to know bases.
No, they worry that someone will leak to MacRumors the three unannounced killer apps, or to Google the video conferencing, teleport, and cotton candy features.
By the way, I hope that the Pad does not in fact require Secrete clearance.
Check alexis ratings. 17th highest viewed page on the net (according to those stats, at least.) Man, he sure was unsuccessful!
Not a whole lot worse than the other "news" that's out there. I don't know if you've looked at the other mockeries of "news" like the New York Times and Time, but it's not much better, more or less the same thing lies and bias wise. None of these are legitimate news, the only way I can assess a real opinion is to watch/read all sorts of sources. The evening sure is weird with O'Reilly first, then Maddow, then Nancy Grace. But at least it's actually a balanced interpretation, instead of them all pretending like they're "fair and balanced." Well, maybe only one of them SAYS that, but you get my point...
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!!"
How is he different from any other news or media tycoon? Do you feel the same about the terrible media conglomerate that is Disney?
I welcome the inclusion of another news source to the iPad, and I'm not going to insult this guy based on lame insults and accusations of his properties doing the same things tons of other media assets do.
"And you, young Skywalker... We will watch your career with great interest."
-- Chancellor Rupert Palpatine
"The Chancellor loves power. If he has any other passion, I have not seen it."
―Mace Windu
In 2005, $580m was a lot of money...
And man, you sure know where money comes from and what it makes a successful organisation! Let's not confuse sympathy votes with a thing called 'money'.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/14/myspace-news-corporation-owen-van-natta
Just one article, but there are several. Nobody's calling Murdoch a genius about MySpace anymore. MySpace's ad revenue fell around 20% in a year. Before anybody would blame the recession, Facebook gained over 10% during the same period. Google is said to want to cut its advertisement deal with MySpace by 60-70%. I chose this one, because I liked that they quoted that
"interference from its owner, Rupert Murdoch, has left the business in a state of "total desperation".
There is another great quote about him:
"Another unnamed executive from MySpace, the flagging social-networking site that Murdoch paid 580 million U.S. dollars for in 2005, claims Murdoch is ill at ease in the internet sphere.
"Digital is out of his comfort zone,” he told the newspaper. “It's much more the Wild West. He gets the raw-competition part of it, but he's never been in a place where the business model isn’t clear. The destruction is just happening so fast.”" (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-03/02/c_13194403.htm)
Or just another quote about his success with MySpace:
"Don't you feel just a pang of sympathy for MySpace? It has even become the butt of cruel jokes. Striking just the right note of pathos, Saturday Night Live called the social networking site the internet's "abandoned amusement park" in a recent skit."
(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...anging-faces-at-murdochs-myspace-1897118.html)
If you still use MySpace, apparently you are not cool anymore. Whatever some mad people say about MS and Adobe on these pages, the real basketcase is MySpace. It seems that the only strategy left for them is to turn it into the world's biggest porn gateway. They are not far.
And man, you sure know where money comes from and what it makes a successful organisation! Let's not confuse sympathy votes with a thing called 'money'.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/14/myspace-news-corporation-owen-van-natta
Just one article, but there are several. Nobody's calling Murdoch a genius about MySpace anymore. MySpace's ad revenue fell around 20% in a year. Before anybody would blame the recession, Facebook gained over 10% during the same period. Google is said to want to cut its advertisement deal with MySpace by 60-70%. I chose this one, because I liked that they quoted that
"interference from its owner, Rupert Murdoch, has left the business in a state of "total desperation".
There is another great quote about him:
"Another unnamed executive from MySpace, the flagging social-networking site that Murdoch paid 580 million U.S. dollars for in 2005, claims Murdoch is ill at ease in the internet sphere.
"Digital is out of his comfort zone,” he told the newspaper. “It's much more the Wild West. He gets the raw-competition part of it, but he's never been in a place where the business model isn’t clear. The destruction is just happening so fast.”" (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-03/02/c_13194403.htm)
Or just another quote about his success with MySpace:
"Don't you feel just a pang of sympathy for MySpace? It has even become the butt of cruel jokes. Striking just the right note of pathos, Saturday Night Live called the social networking site the internet's "abandoned amusement park" in a recent skit."
(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...anging-faces-at-murdochs-myspace-1897118.html)
If you still use MySpace, apparently you are not cool anymore. Whatever some mad people say about MS and Adobe on these pages, the real basketcase is MySpace. It seems that the only strategy left for them is to turn it into the world's biggest porn gateway. They are not far.
If Fossils Could Talk......
Oh wait...one just did.
Wonder if dust comes out of his mouth when he sneezes?
Oh wait...one just did.
Wonder if dust comes out of his mouth when he sneezes?
This is an important point. Traditional media has floundered to find their way in the online space, but now that they can present their content in a new way, a way that actually makes their content more accessible as compared to web based, they will charge for it.
The fact that a lot of these sites have been "free" for years, is only because they have not been able to figure out a way to present the content in a way that people would pay for it.
The content still has its value. People that say they will read x,y,z online for free are being silly. Sure you can do that, but most of the sites that are really free are just aggregators. Aggregators will be worthless when most sites go to a pay for content model. All that will be free are armchair bloggers.
Personally, I am more than willing to pay a little bit for access to quality editorial content and writing. I don't expect everything for free.
I think people who think they are going to replace the WSJ with some free website are dreaming.
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.
I agree with this.
I think the need a media app perhaps one for newspapers and one for magazines.
This would allow new publishers to provide content, and old publishers to get on board more quickly. The idea of each publication having to make their own app just seems clunky to me.
It's an opinion buddy - plain and simple!
The BBC is now going through a whole consultation process about the license fee and where it should be spent all thanks to Murdoch and his moaning ways...
So yeah, screw him!
**** already
Are you serious? With 95% of all news media vomiting out DNC talking points (i.e lies, not to mention around 90% of reporters self-identifing as liberals) you expect us to NOT look for a different opinion. Please, you're just upset that the "state controlled media" isn't our only source of news any more.
Are you serious? With 95% of all news media vomiting out DNC talking points (i.e lies, not to mention around 90% of reporters self-identifing as liberals) you expect us to NOT look for a different opinion. Please, you're just upset that the "state controlled media" isn't our only source of news any more.
Cmon Steve..
Time for iPad's/iPhones to have flash capable software. Don't give this crap about it consuming too much CPU power.. that is too lame even for me to believe.
I mean when I load a page, that has flash on it, you see the flash come up but then it goes away. So annoying.. And is honestly just creating a ****** experience.
Time for iPad's/iPhones to have flash capable software. Don't give this crap about it consuming too much CPU power.. that is too lame even for me to believe.
I mean when I load a page, that has flash on it, you see the flash come up but then it goes away. So annoying.. And is honestly just creating a ****** experience.