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Time Inc. Also Working on Digital Content In Anticipation of Apple Tablet

chickyd said:
looks great, but how much reading do i really want to do on a bright lcd or oled?.. you'd destroy your eyes trying to read loads of text on a screen like that
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You mean in the same way we destroy our eyes every day using a computer? :p

star-fish said:
How can they design for a new platform release they have no information about, don't even know what resolution it is or even how it will be programmed and what functionality will be supported?
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They can easily design for a platform they know nothing about, they already did, you watched the video right?

Whether they have to change the final resolution or amend a few other details won't matter, they're looking at the bigger picture and the potential of how they can create a dynamic magazine that integrates interactive content in a meaningful way.
 
Glideslope said:
Agreed. IMO, the big issue now is bandwidth. Can carriers handle a device like this?
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I think you're thinking of the magazine content being downloaded dynamically over the web, where I'm imagining the simpler approach is to download your magazines and newspapers like iTunes songs or movies for you to take with you on the tablet. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the Tablet ended up being a WiFi only device similar to a larger iPod touch.
 
dmjossel said:
Apple doesn't publish music. They distribute it. They don't do their job without publishers, the publishers are the ones they work with. They are taking the place of retail distributors of media, like WalMart. What they are doing is forming a single monolithic point of digital distribution, which the publishers could have and perhaps should have done themselves, but did not, perhaps because they didn't really believe in the model, or because they did not want to alienate their brick and mortar partners, or both.

Apple can't do the same with print content? Why not?
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You seriously can't come up with any reason why you wouldn't want a "single monolithic point of distribution" for your products?? Whatever the product happens to be?


dmjossel said:
If Rupert Murdoch can't manage to put the RSS genie back into the bottle to fight against Google, why would anybody else be able to do so against Apple?

What is preventing Apple from making a tablet browser that does most of what that prototype does, with or without participation from publishers? It's just an extension of what Dashboard and web widgets do now, or what iGoogle does.
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Nothing, Apple can do whatever product it wants. The major content producers just are not eager to sign in. What they want is an platform for which several companies can produce hardware and where several points of distribution can exist.
 
Huh. That was actually kind of interesting. I bet a decently priced tablet with a lot of fantasy sports capabilities would go over pretty well.
 
EssentialParado said:
I think you're thinking of the magazine content being downloaded dynamically over the web, where I'm imagining the simpler approach is to download your magazines and newspapers like iTunes songs or movies for you to take with you on the tablet. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the Tablet ended up being a WiFi only device similar to a larger iPod touch.
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Possible. Perhaps the new 600,000 sqft facility in NC along with the "Trial" run in NC of Time Warners new "WiMAX" will play a role?

Exciting times ahead. :apple:
 
chickyd said:
looks great, but how much reading do i really want to do on a bright lcd or oled?.. you'd destroy your eyes trying to read loads of text on a screen like that,

..i'd rather have a physical magazine until they can match the crazy enhanced media of that SI edition with the e book style e-ink.
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Yes, except the majority of people don't really read much any longer.

The consume multimedia: text, photos, video, charts, graphs, flash, interactive.

Reading will exist in books and in a few paper holdouts, and probably in a hybrid format on these tablet. But reading is not the future; it's multimedia.
 
Jayomat said:
It doesn't mean anything.. it's just a mockup.. it doesn't run at all!
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It DOES actually run, it is a running demo, if you read the original source, or the AI report. Just with a flying hand over it, which makes it look like a mockup.
 
I currently read magazines on my Mac's with Zinio right now. I have the DVDs of all the National Geographic magazines, Star Trek comic books and text books, Dr Who ebooks and thousands of other media. I dream of having a shoe box of data crystals with all the information in the libraries of the world and a light, portable machine to view them with a view screen the same size as a magazine, last all day, charge at night, color and a e-ink mode to view b/w text and save power. :p
 
Now where are all the bitches saying there is no market and no need for a tablet. :p
 
tdream said:
Now where are all the bitches saying there is no market and no need for a tablet. :p
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I am making myself a promise. As soon as I get the Tablet I'm going to get rid of the two huge book cases of books. I also know that Amazon is going to be building a reader for the Tablet as they did with the iPhone and the upcoming mac reader. I have the amazon iphone app and have read 33 books on it. I'm so ready for this device that I wish it had been here a year ago. This device is going to be the gold standard of netbook/ebook readers.
 
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jlseattle said:
Jayomat said:
It doesn't mean anything.. it's just a mockup.. it doesn't run at all!
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So rather than use the most popular platform (windows) to create a "mock-up" of this device they chose Max OS X? I don't think so.
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So you think they made an OS X-compatible device, with high costs and EULA issues that would entail? Just to demonstrate software?
 
jouster said:
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So you think they made an OS X-compatible device, with high costs and EULA issues that would entail? Just to demonstrate software?
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I think the point being made was that they made the mock-up with Mac OS X-like elements, as they saw it being realised on a Mac.
 
It's a decent mockup, but I don't quite get the point of these digitized magazines. How are they any different from a well-designed website like Espn.com or NYT.com? Why would I pay another $30 a year for something I get free everyday RIGHT NOW?

And how will this content be distributed? Live, like the Web or is this something you'd have to download separately? If it has a lot of video content, I can see these needing a lot of bandwidth.
 
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So you think they made an OS X-compatible device, with high costs and EULA issues that would entail? Just to demonstrate software?
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They didn't. I don't think that the people at a magazine are so forward to come up with this on their own and "pick" the mac os to setup the demo. This obviously the Apple Tablet or iTablet or whatever. But I do believe this is a legitimate interface to what is going to happen with the Tablet. I also think that this device is going to be great.
 
ok i'll just say it.. those hands bugged the heck out of me! all stiff and creepy-looking. i couldn't focus on anything else i just wanted them to go away.
 
dongmin said:
It's a decent mockup, but I don't quite get the point of these digitized magazines. How are they any different from a well-designed website like Espn.com or NYT.com? Why would I pay another $30 a year for something I get free everyday RIGHT NOW?

And how will this content be distributed? Live, like the Web or is this something you'd have to download separately? If it has a lot of video content, I can see these needing a lot of bandwidth.
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I'm sure this will be the jumping off point where they will start restricting the information on the website and a "subscription" will get you full access to everything. I think this interface will be a combination of a magazine and a up-to-date game score. Meaning that it will be mixed monthly articles and content and then also current information. I'm sure that the interface will support on the fly additions to the magazine. Infact I wouldn't be surprised that once you subscribe you can just see a list of months that have a magazine and you can just read them. But I do believe that this will be the cutting off point where you may not see as much "free" information online. They have to make their money some how.
 
Seeing this video brings up the idea of a 'branded' device. Would providing a 'branded' device be of use to the market? This device in the video has a 'Time Inc.' brand. Would it make sense to do that for the media companies? It would be a shift away from normal Apple device releases...
 
funny

they are worried that Apple will dominate the market? Why would they worry about that? It would be the best thing to ever happen! They'd sell more subscriptions.

The problem is people are use to getting stuff for free online already.. Magazines are gonna have to really up it to stay afloat. Interactive stuff with games could be the next thing. Live chat with friends, football pools. etc
 
marco114 said:
they are worried that Apple will dominate the market? Why would they worry about that? It would be the best thing to ever happen! They'd sell more subscriptions.

The problem is people are use to getting stuff for free online already.. Magazines are gonna have to really up it to stay afloat. Interactive stuff with games could be the next thing. Live chat with friends, football pools. etc
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Totally agree with you!
 
jennyp said:
I think the point being made was that they made the mock-up with Mac OS X-like elements, as they saw it being realised on a Mac.
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Most likely it was made ON a Mac by someone they hired to do it. Wonder why so many ads contain Macs as the machine of choice? The people making the ads already have access to those machines. So, this was most likely made by people doing their trade on Macs and thus for them easiest to snap/copy from.
 
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