Adam Banks

iPad 2: the same, but different

by Adam Banks on 3 March 2011 in Analysis

More than the specifications of the device itself, one question preoccupied the 600 attendees crammed into a curtained-off studio at BBC Television Centre for Apple’s launch of the iPad 2. Would Steve be on stage? And, after a prompt 6pm start, he was. Still painfully thin – the belt around his trademark blue jeans appeared [...]

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No business like show business

by Adam Banks on 18 February 2011 in Editorial

This fortnight, we flew 11,000 miles to go to a computer show. Macworld Expo San Francisco may be a long way away and named after a rival magazine (in the US, the two are intertwined by a complicated history of cross-licensing and staff swaps), but it’s our favourite place to meet the industry and some [...]

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The future of publishing: buy quality, talk quality, sell linkbait

by Adam Banks on 12 February 2011 in Analysis

AOL has agreed to buy the Huffington Post ten years after its merger with Time Warner, of which MacUser wrote: ‘As a portent of Armageddon you couldn’t do much better.’

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We need to talk about Steve

by Adam Banks on 9 February 2011 in Editorial
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On Monday 17 January, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced, in
a letter to employees, that he would be taking a third leave of absence from the company for medical reasons. During a previous hiatus in 2009, he underwent a liver transplant to treat a rare form of pancreatic cancer. No information has been released about the reasons for his current break, and his letter closed: ‘My family and I would deeply appreciate respect for our privacy.’

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The Daily launches on iPad

by Adam Banks on 3 February 2011 in News

Horrid winter weather didn’t stop journalists swarming to the Guggenheim Museum for the launch of The Daily, the newest creation of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

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Moral outrage is on the offensive

by Adam Banks on 13 May 2010 in One More Thing

In times of economic strife, scary puritanism seems to flourish, which might explain three recent high-profile moral panics… Bill Clinton told his election team, ‘It’s the economy, stupid,’ but the relationship between prosperity and political attitudes is far from being a no-brainer. Sometimes, when the going gets tough, the tough get going; so from the [...]

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