Faster Forward Archive: The business we have chosen
Apple demands subscription revenue from publishers
Apple describes the subscription option it just launched for iPhone and iPad applications as a convenience to customers. That it may be. But to any company looking to do business through an app for Apple's mobile devices, it's more like a form of financial hijacking. The Cupertino, Calif., company's press...
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 15, 2011; 3:37 PM ET |
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Verizon stops taking iPhone pre-orders after setting unspecified 'record'
Verizon stopped taking pre-orders for its version of the iPhone 4 at 8:10 last night--and it clocked so many that it hasn't finished counting them. That's one way to read this morning's press release, in which the carrier uses a variety of phrases--"record sales," "the most successful first day sales...
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 4, 2011; 9:16 AM ET |
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News Corp. launches its tablet-only The Daily app for the iPad
News Corp.'s new, iPad-only The Daily is the most ambitious attempt yet by a traditional media firm to merge the subscription-plus-advertising business model of a print publication with the multimedia and interactivity of the Web.
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 2, 2011; 1:00 PM ET |
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A first read of Ongo: ad-free news for a price
You can now pay to read my column without any ads attached--but the Post won't be sending you the bill. Instead, a new, Post-backed site called Ongo hopes to charge users $6.99 a month for ad-free access to this paper's stories and those of USA Today, plus "picks" from the...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 25, 2011; 9:45 AM ET |
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What we do and don't need to know about Steve Jobs's medical leave
Steve Jobs is sick again, can't do his job and needs to have his deputy fill in. That's all we know for sure from the brief statement by Jobs that Apple posted to its Web site this morning under the bland title ""Apple Media Advisory." In it, Jobs writes that...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 17, 2011; 4:25 PM ET |
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Grading my Verizon iPhone predictions
An e-mail with the subject header "Apology?" arrived 13 minutes before the start of Verizon's iPhone event Tuesday. It asked a a simple question: Would you like to apologize for telling people they are crazy for waiting for the Verizon iPhone this past summer and fall? :) That's a perfectly...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 13, 2011; 11:25 AM ET |
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