Of all the mobile devices launched in recent years, the iPad has been the most promising for the journalism business.
iPad owners are more likely than others to use the devices to keep up with news, and compared to … Read more
When it comes to the big Apple stories, it’s wrong most of the time. Sometimes wildly so. ... At least some of its sources appear to be so lousy that suppressing their scuttlebutt would make more sense than publicizing it — and partway through its stories, it sometimes stops hedging and starts stating the rumor as fact.McCracken was able to assess the accuracy of 21 of 25 stories (the remaining four could turn out to be accurate) and found that 16 were completely or largely "off-base." His advice: Ignore Digitimes' stories unless you can confirm them. On a related note, did you hear about Apple's latest game-changer, the iTV? || Related: David Cohn says everyone who can report substantially on tech industry is beholden to it | Is tech blogging over, or entering a new golden age?
Apple announced its latest iPad today, which features a much higher resolution display that’s perfect for reading and for news apps.
The new iPad could finally elevate the text reading experience on a tablet to something much more akin to … Read more
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Apple is planning a “media-related” announcement later this month in New York, Kara Swisher writes. Alexia Tsotsis confirms the report and says the event will “unveil improvements to the iBooks platform” and attendance will … Read more
A couple weeks ago I predicted that Apple’s virtual Newsstand for iPads and iPhones would provide “a little more convenience for the user, and a little more discoverability for the publisher — but nothing here is a game-changer.”
I stand … Read more
Journalists may have been Apple’s original fanboys (and gals). Early on, the company presented an irresistible underdog story, the garage start-up taking on the corporate behemoth — a narrative Apple stoked in its “1984” and “Think Different” ad campaigns. It’s true, too, that many reporters were early adopters of Apple products, and many use them to this day, surely enhancing positive media feelings.
Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg tells Farhi that Jobs viewed the media through a complicated prism, shrewdly sizing up who could help the company and who could hurt. “It’s pretty hard for me to generalize because he had different relationships with different journalists. A lot depended on whether you were a reporter covering the company or a reviewer of its products."
Gawker media writer Hamilton Nolan said in his "Steve Jobs is Not God" post that "when even the journalists tasked with covering you and your company are reduced to pie-eyed fans apologizing for discomforting your insanely powerful multibillion-dollar corporation in some minor way, some perspective has been lost." Nolan's item has over 1,000 comments, including one from Forbes media writer Jeff Bercovici, who says that "canonizing him is a form of narcissism on our part."
> There have been 2.5 million tweets mentioning Jobs since his death
> Check out the words most frequently used in tweets about Jobs
Letters on a computer screen were two-dimensional blips and characters that rolled along as you typed them in before Steve Jobs and his team created the windows interface.
Jobs gave visual depth to things.
He put drop shadows between elements … Read more