Meh. Exclusives are fine... I guess. Who really cares about magazines anymore? The whole industry is deader than dead.

The Newstand gives Apple a leg up on Amazon. iBooks could use some work to compete seriously with Kindle, but Newstand stands out compared to periodical sales from Amazon. I love the WSJ app in Newstand.

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Originally Posted by SpamSandwich 

Meh. Exclusives are fine... I guess. Who really cares about magazines anymore? The whole industry is deader than dead.

I certainly don't care about the WORD "magazine," and I don't care whether someone considers a magazine app to be a "real" magazine or not. I do care about content, under whatever name. I like content being varied, with competition for quality, and I like content being available in lots of different formats and styles. And I do appreciate that ads alone are the only business model worth having for content. Newsstand apps, for instance!

Go Apple, go, go, go...

Magazines should have targeted the Internet long ago, they are essentially aimed at special interests or subcultures and what better way to find your audience than the Internet. All that was need was something better than a crumby old website, such as a Retina iPad with PDF based pages and then it's $$$.

It's time for TV companies to release TV shows in a timely manner on iTunes. A TV show broadcast at 8 pm shouldn't show up on iTunes 6-12 hours later.

Originally Posted by dasanman69 
They should all follow HBO's lead. Every show is available on HBO GO immediately after it airs.

I was thinking more "simultaneously with broadcast", myself.

Actually, "downloading before the broadcast starts, but not playable until your computer clock hits X:X0:00."