Gruber reports, “My understanding is that this initiative is going to launch with a press event, with Murdoch (and perhaps other newspaper and magazine executives) joining Steve Jobs on stage. This is not going to be a quiet launch, to say the least… it won’t happen until next month at the earliest.”
“The date I’ve heard is December 9, but that’s a Thursday, which would be somewhat unusual for an Apple press event,” Gruber reports. “My guess is that they’re telling people December 9 but it might slip back to Tuesday or Wednesday the week after. Perhaps it will coincide with the opening of the Mac App Store?”
Full article here.
The MacAppStore, the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?
Apparently this “Daily” isn’t going to be available any other way EXCEPT on a iPad.
It makes no sense to me to fold it into the launch of the Mac App Store since it would be solely an iPad app.
@Bunches
Correctomundo!
A few of the posts I’ve read have specifically mentioned it being on the ipad but also add “and other tablets”
No Murdochvision for me. I like news- not newz.
My guess is this announcement plus iWork ’11 and the Mac App Store. New iPad or iPhone? No – too close to the holidays.
To all you flaming liberals, hang on to your socialist ideas! More free-market (or evil capitalism) goods and services are coming via the iPad.
This means more innovation, more money spent, more jobs.
Surprise, surprise, nothing came from the Feds. However you liberals will need time to find a way to tax it to death.
This will be big – with the usual Apple twist on an e-zine. The NYT had enough lead time but hasn’t come up with anything compelling (even a replica of the print edition would have been better).
I agree, this is going to be big. It won’t be like anything we’ve ever seen. Apple usually takes on stuff like this when nobody else was able to deliver. I think the closest we saw was Wired. This won’t be a newspaper, magazine, tv show re-purposed, this will be unique and take advantage of what can be done with the iPad.
Just say no to Fixed News. “We deceive you believe.”
How about an event that announces DAILY and a periodical subscription plan? Talk about flaming the holiday purchase flames. “Get your local paper delivered electronically every morning, TIME, Sports Illustrated, etc. Magazines delivered electronically every week, and read Daily only on the iPad.”
I doubt these Fox haters have ever even watched it. They are just goose-stepping in line with their move-on.org masters.
I’ve already got the bases loaded with the
Economist,Washington Post,Science,
Sporting News Today,Rolling Stone,
Macworld. Why would I need more mags
or newspapers? Only 24 hrs in a day.
I have Faux Newz on my cable and occasionally watch it for laughs. I guess it’s NewzCrap’s effort to by compliant with the Federal ADA. It helps the reality impaired and fact challenged find a sense of community.
@re: Irony
Exactly. Thank you for proving my point.