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“The chairman and chief executive of News Corporation said the iPad would allow publishers to attract new readers to their mastheads,” AAP reports. “‘It’s a real game changer in the presentation of news,’ Mr Murdoch said on Thursday during a conference call for the company’s full year profit results. ‘We will have young people reading newspapers. We will have different looking types of newspapers.'”
AAP reports, “Mr Murdoch said he expected to see hundreds of millions of these devices around the world. ‘There will be all sorts of things we can do with them,’ Mr Murdoch said. ‘As they develop technologically, we have got to to develop our methods of presentation of news.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
No matter how good a device is, people will still go out of their way to avoid a paywall no matter the publisher.
The platform of radio evolved the delivery of news content.
As did the news reel. And television.
The platform of the web enables the next evolution of content delivery.
Every time somebody new in the media says they like the iPad, MDN flames the “revolutionary” headline.
Notice to MDN: you are losing your credibility. The iPad is a glass slate gadget with very, very little usefulness. Once you have read some mail, surfed some net, and played some games, you’re pretty well done.
Now, we await a “revolutionary” breakthrough with the introduction of the next gen iPad that will actually be more useful as it begins to do something productive.
But, even then, at best we will have a crippled laptop leaning on some rack attached to a real keyboard with a mouse option.
I think all news should be free.
We have a right to free news.
In fact, all knowledge, all food, all shelter, all health care, all education should be free too. These are human rights.
You might think I am joking. But it sounds like the right thing to do.
The cable news is today’s news. The news paper is yesterday’s news. If the news paper becomes an on-line membership, they may stop loosing their customers that now sit in front of the TV trying to get today’s news. A live online news paper would let you go straight to what you want to read and see when you want without 3 minutes of commercials or an hour later.
They have to do this, there is not other choice.
@ On and On
Not even entertaining. Come on, you really suck at this. Try again.
“Once you have read some mail, surfed some net, and played some games, you’re pretty well done.”
Conversely, Asus laptops always finish with Happy Ending.
@On and On
“Now, we await a ‘revolutionary’ breakthrough with the introduction of the next gen iPad that will actually be more useful as it begins to do something productive.”
How exactly will this ‘next gen’ iPad suddenly become more productive and useful for you and people like you? Will a USB port, camera and SD card slot make any damn difference to 95% of the iPad apps out there?
If you can’t find a useful iPad app then blame the developers. Apple has provided a blank slate which is powerful, has an amazing screen, impressive battery life and the most responsive and sensitive multi-touch experience.
It’s up to the developers to make amazing apps with it. There’s nothing stopping them but their own imaginations. There’s plenty of cool iPad apps out there already and I’m sued they’ll be plenty more coming. New technical specs or features are hardly gonna make a difference to that.
Maybe you should be looking at all those wonderful Android tablets out there if you’re a typical specs obsessed geek like the rest of the mainstream tech media….?
The Killer APP is a 24/7 friend on your mobile device. S/he picks your stocks, mate, and keeps a good secret. Knows everything.
Hal 9000 without the attitude.
Oh, and perfect voice recognition. And a beautiful face.
@jersey
I generally agree with you, but not in this case. If we go looking for what we want to find, we will find it. This invariably results in a closed mind. For a real education we must be challenged at every step.
“The cable news is today’s news. The news paper is yesterday’s news.”
Right AND wrong.
Newspapers cover the news in smaller markets for their locals.
CNN and other cable news channels depend on this and local TV reporters for a lot of news gathering.
Once you loose the local news reporters, you have less of a clear picture of what happens away form the major markets.
Better coverage of the home market with live coverage of some events and breaking news is what will save the smaller newspapers…that will actually no longer be paper (or very limited distribution)
The larger papers and markets that report national and international news are the hardest hit. That’s what you get from cable.
Murdoch – love him or hate him, he is very savvy and very well informed. I think we should be happy that he is embracing these new technologies and helping to push it all forward.
@ChrissyOne
“Happy Endings”?
If only more things ended with happy endings.
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@C1
Chrissy, besides demonstrating your considerable talent and showing your art to others, what exactly are you able to do with the iPad that even approaches the productivity of a real computer – laptop or desktop?
Struggling with the iPad apps to attempt anything you can do so much better and with so much more ease with the Mac doesn’t make any sense to me.
The iPad portability where you can pop it out of your bag, lean it on something or hold it up for your clients to view is an understandable use for you, but what else?
@C1
While your work looks great on the iPad, I think it is several powers of magnitude better when people can see it larger – way larger than the iPad screen. So, isn’t even your use of the iPad for showing your work somewhat limited?
@ on and on
What? Do you even own an iPad? I got a keynote presentation I gave to the rest of my creative team @ a fortune 50 company that knocked their socks off all done on my iPad. Sat outside my condo next to the river w/ a smoke and a cool drink one Sunday evening and couldn’t have had a better time “working”! No plug to find, no 3 hour battery issues. I took a few breaks here and there to read the news, watch a video, answer some email and even paid a bill or 2 with 75% battery left when I was done! Not bad for a crippled glass slate with no mouse! I’m not sure what you’re doing on this laptop of yours but I hope we see that cure for cancer soon? Until then I’ll decide what’s “useful” to me thank you very much.
Mr Murdoch said. ‘As they develop technologically, we have got to to develop our methods of presentation of news.'”
How about restoring integrity and credibility to journalism and dropping the biased agendas you shove down the public’s throats daily Rupert?
How about some higher reliable standards and principals and intelligent qualified writers that do due diligence before over scoop…( do do over poop)?
Maybe then there will be value in paying or subscribing for real journalism.
Well it completely replaced my entire entertainment center, saved me 60 bucks a month on cable TV and completely ended my horrible habit of wasting away on the couch for hours at a time. How about that? Somehow watching movie on a laptop was a clunky stupid farce, and the iPad works wonderfully.
Does that make a dent in your little brain? Doubt it. But I don’t care about specifics, I’m just looking for more entertaining writing, and from the recycled screeds you’ve piled out above, you have a ways to go. Why not watch some interesting documentaries to stimulate your mind? It’s a breeze on Netflix for iPad.
On and On:
Graduate before you start spouting , this ain’t kindergarden.
“While your work looks great on the iPad, I think it is several powers of magnitude better when people can see it larger – way larger than the iPad screen.”
So, just how big of a laptop do you carry around, André?
I’ve decided you are not worth my time, you may go now. Run along.
You people are hateful. I point out the limitations of the over-ballyhooed gadget and all you can think of in reply is some mindless personal characterization.
Bunch of morons.
Standing in line for six hours at the local Apple retail store to pick up our iP4’s was a couple, each with their very own iPads. She was surfin and he was doing a puzzle. I asked them what else they did with their pads and their reply was “this is about it, it’s great!”.
I think they are typical iPad owners. A few have made it more useful, but they still have to admit that it’s pretty limited.
@On and On,
You obviously don’t have an iPad. It has replaced 90% of my laptop use. Save when I have to do programming. I use it for all of my consumption now. I can’t remember the last time I used twitter, facebook or even the web on my laptop. I use it to create documents, spreadsheets, and keynotes.
It is amazing that you spout about a decide you so clearly have never used. Limited interaction in an Apple Store doesn’t qualify you to review it.
Come back once you have experienced it. Your tune will definately change.
@ On and On
“I point out the limitations of the over-ballyhooed gadget and all you can think of in reply is some mindless personal characterization.”
…only you haven’t pointed out any limitations yet. Don’t get all persecuted, personally I just think you’re a crappy writer.
I use iPad for portfolio presentations (via Keynote), read all my favorite newspapers & magazines, my entire music library at my fingertips, 22 Humphrey Bogart movies in Video folder for bedtime, playing for blood marathon Scrabble games with my daughter-in-law, email, writing advertising copy, streaming entire movie & music library via AirVideo app, pay all my bills and banking, Netflix the latest movies, use Remote app for AppleTV control, access Dictionary and reference apps, check weather doppler instantly, watch every NY Yankees game on MLB At Bat, etc etc etc…guess I am one of those “bunch of morons” that On And On is referring. I submit that the only “pretty limited” thing about iPad is when it’s in On And On’s leedle-bitty mind.