December 2010
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Wired and the iPad
Wired is the magazine that should be selling more than anyone else on the iPad. And it has executed… fairly well, up to a point. So how is it selling?
Well, according to Conde Nast, after the initial surge of curiosity pushed sales over 100k, monthly sales have settled at around 32,000. At $3.99 an issue and allowing for Apple’s 30% commission, that works out at just under $1.1m a...
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On Apple, Android and Openness
‘Open’ is not a synonym for ‘better’. It doesn’t have much to do with why Apple lost to Microsoft, nor with what will happen in the mobile handset market. Scrolling back to the Apple versus Microsoft wars, ‘Open’ wasn’t really the point. The PC market at that time was largely driven by the corporate market, which wanted a cheap commodity product. The...
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iBooks brings proper layout control to ebooks;...
Apple just released a new revision of iBooks. They’ve forked ePub (which is basically just a zipped HTML file) to allow proper layout control, and the results are… interesting. Apple has put several dozen titles (or more) up for an initial launch - a mix of cook books, photo books and children’s picture books.
Yes, the publisher gets complete control of the layout. But that...
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WatchFred Wilson holds forth…
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WatchGoogle’s Andy Rubin on Android
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