Tag Archives: iPad

Apple needs to make peace with Medialand

How unpleasant can Apple make the experience of publishing apps for the iPad? In Europe, the disincentives are piled high. The cost structure behind every £1 of revenue earned by a UK paid-app publisher has looks distinctly nasty: In the UK, publishers will continue to pay Apple 30%. Thanks to Apple’s decision to ban in-app [...]

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Mobile news apps vs. Tweet-led link economy

In the poverty-stricken world of news publishing, it’s been a long time since a digital love object appeared over the horizon. Perhaps mobile apps are that love object. Users seem smitten. The Guardian has sold over 70,000 apps at £2.39 a pop in the space of a month. The Telegraph says that sponsorship deals have [...]

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Steve Jobs unveils his palace of Big Media dreams

And lo, the Jesus tablet came among us. Predictably, the fan boy sites are focusing on the form factor and tech specs. It’s a 1GHz computer with a touchscreen interface. Apple will be making its own CPU (the technology involved is challenging, to say the least). Physically, it looks like an outsized iPhone, or an [...]

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