iPad News Publication 'The Daily' Now Rumored for Mid-January Launch
Despite rumors of a December launch, it appears that The Daily's debut will not occur until early next year, possibly due in part to delays on Apple's side as it prepared iOS 4.2 for release pushing back its work on rolling out iOS support for recurring billing and for automatically pushing content from apps like The Daily to users' devices.
All Things Digital now reports that News Corp. is preparing to launch The Daily during the week of January 17th.
News Corp. plans to launch the publication the week of January 17, multiple sources tell me.
The caveat here is that launch plans have moved around a couple of times in the past few months; until recently, lots of folks expected to see this thing in December. But this latest date looks like a much safer bet.
The Daily is also expected to be the first application to use Apple's forthcoming recurring billing feature, allowing users' iTunes Store accounts to be automatically charged on a weekly or monthly basis to keep news content flowing to their devices. Other content-focused apps are obviously expected to quickly adopt the feature once it goes live.
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This will be a success, and it will be the future of newspapers. Once the publications you do like see how successful News Corp. is with this idea, they will all jump on board and you can subscribe to your own brand of news reporting (liberal leaning, "unbiased", or whatever). Murdoch and his crew are just the trailblazers, and for that you should be excited.
I suspect News Corp. will try and make very clear from the launch that this is not Fox News for iPad. They want to build a mainstream brand on a device that's going to add millions of users a month over the next several years.
When you carve iPad users down to a conservative, politically interested subset, you've got a much smaller user base than what The Daily will need to survive.
Speaking for Fox News or any other news outlet (WORLDWIDE) everyone has a SPIN. Many Americans feel uppity thinking they are “smarter” for watching/listening to the BBC (and the like) but everyone spins things. A documentary is just another one-sided argument with a Director’s take or agenda (most notably Michael Moore’s but even BBC documentaries are easily one-sided).
Plenty of Fox News employees donate to the Right Wing....and plenty of MSNBC and the like donate to the Left Wing.
Watch all with open eyes and you can see where the “NEWS” is more slanted with agendas. Then you can fit the puzzle together with facts. Ignore some news channels and you become ignorant of all facts and stories. Solely watching Fox makes one slanted as does ignoring Fox. If I hear a story that catches my eye/ear then I like to take time to research it to uncover more facts. I hate seeing emails with this or that politically for the past 10 years (that covers two different administrations) and usually stop the email forward or reply with FACTS.
Overall this is a good thing to be brought to the iPad.
Speaking for Fox News or any other news outlet (WORLDWIDE) everyone has a SPIN. Many Americans feel uppity thinking they are “smarter” for watching/listening to the BBC (and the like) but everyone spins things. A documentary is just another one-sided argument with a Director’s take or agenda (most notably Michael Moore’s but even BBC documentaries are easily one-sided).
Plenty of Fox News employees donate to the Right Wing....and plenty of MSNBC and the like donate to the Left Wing.
Watch all with open eyes and you can see where the “NEWS” is more slanted with agendas. Then you can fit the puzzle together with facts. Ignore some news channels and you become ignorant of all facts and stories. Solely watching Fox makes one slanted as does ignoring Fox. If I hear a story that catches my eye/ear then I like to take time to research it to uncover more facts. I hate seeing emails with this or that politically for the past 10 years (that covers two different administrations) and usually stop the email forward or reply with FACTS.
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couldn't of said it better myself
If something is reported by somebody, then it is slanted (whether intensional or not).
According to reports, The Daily will be published on a daily basis...
This, for me, is the most shocking bit of news, here. The Daily is going to be published on a daily basis. :eek:
We should reply (with new posts, not those that are in a conversational matter) with Political thoughts/App thoughts/and the like.
Politically I think this is the best thing to happen to the iPad —OR— this app spews political sewage on the iPad.
App thoughts this will bring about a new business model to the iPad that will revolutionize the new technology—or—this app is a waste and is only giving way for corporations to suck money out of us on a daily basis like other monthly payouts.
Trash news for trashy people. Won't turn my ipad into a sewer pipe.
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