Analysis

Publishers are feeling the iPinch

by Kenny Hemphill on 18 February 2011 in Analysis

A quarter of a century ago, the publishing landscape looked very different. Producing magazines was vastly more difficult and expensive than it is now, and as a result there were significantly fewer publications on newsagents’ shelves. Three things revolutionised the process of making magazines: the Mac, desktop publishing software and the PostScript printer. Credit Apple, [...]

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In-app subscriptions: publishers’ silence is damning for Apple

by Kenny Hemphill on 16 February 2011 in Analysis
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Apple’s new rules for in-app subscriptions are already proving controversial. What’s all the fuss about?

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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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iWork shortages ahead of App Store launch

by Simon Aughton on 20 December 2010 in Analysis
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US retailers including Apple’s own stores are running short of boxed copies of iWork ’09

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Apple slims keyboard range

by Simon Aughton on 3 December 2010 in Analysis
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Apple drops wired, compact keyboard, alters Universal Dock bundle.

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US broadcasters decry Apple TV rental price

by Simon Aughton on 24 September 2010 in Analysis
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Major US broadcasters have turned down the chance to offer 99¢ rentals though the new Apple TV, saying that the price is too low.

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