Now Apple are controlling news
http://www.wired.com/2015/09/bjarke-...ade-center-wtc
Can anyone care to explain to me how this is anything but regressive for humankind? |
I fail to see a problem. Good article by the way, if you want to read it in the UK change your region to the US. Oh and own an iPad or iPhone.
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You fail to see a problem with news content (okay, not this one specifically which is more like a lifestyle article) on an open web platform being restricted to particular users/devices?
It wouldn't be so bad if it was only visible on Apple devices - but it's not, it's a clickable article on the wired homepage which is effectively blocked for non-iOS users. |
Are they making poor saps pay twice? Seems normal
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It's great for publishers, they earn 100% of the revenue from ads they sell, and 70% when iAd sells ads for you.
Look, people produce content for iOS or Android exclusively all the time, I'm sure Samsung News will be along shortly. |
Originally Posted by JackClark
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Look, people produce content for iOS or Android exclusively all the time
Originally Posted by JackClark
I'm sure Samsung News will be along shortly.
We should be standardising the web, not making lots of silos and bespoke APIs to the benefit of a handful of corporations. |
Originally Posted by ReallyReallyGoodMeat
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Can you show me an example of this? (that is, content published openly on the web but only viewable on Android/iOS)
Possibly true, and would be equally terrible. We should be standardising the web, not making lots of silos and bespoke APIs to the benefit of a handful of corporations. If you haven't noticed the move is away from the web for news and magazines, it's a horrible place to read. |
I hate apple, but given this is the sort of thing that all online newspapers do when they charge people who read papers online kinda think your getting a bit upatty for the sake of it hahaha
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Hate's an ugly word. I really don't understand how you could hate something like a technology company, I dislike runner beans but I don't feel the need to talk about them all the time I just don't eat them.
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Originally Posted by JackClark
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If you haven't noticed the move is away from the web for news and magazines, it's a horrible place to read.
It's nothing to do with user-experience and everything to do with ads. This is not Apple-specific. However this is the first time I've seen an link to an article from the front page of a well-respected news website (that is openly published to the web) demanding you can only read it via a certain device/app. |
Originally Posted by ReallyReallyGoodMeat
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I disagree - You mean it's a horrible place to monetise?
It's nothing to do with user-experience and everything to do with ads. This is not Apple-specific. However this is the first time I've seen an link to an article from the front page of a well-respected news website (that is openly published to the web) demanding you can only read it via a certain device/app. I should add that I run a website with 1.5 million page views a year, pretty good numbers, it's sole income is Adsense, we've been planning alternative revenue streams for almost a year. Any similar or larger site is hopefully doing the same or they'll suffer. |
Originally Posted by JackClark
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I should add that I run a website with 1.5 million page views a year, pretty good numbers, it's sole income is Adsense, we've been planning alternative revenue streams for almost a year. Any similar or larger site is hopefully doing the same or they'll suffer.
But doing what Wired/Apple are doing here is creating a two-tier version of their own website, and creating yet another Apple walled-garden. Time will tell but IMO all it will do is drive people away from Wired.com - I don't envisage many people will buy an iOS device just to read that architecture story on Wired. |
Download Flipboard, web sites have been formatting their content for more than web pages for a long time.
https://about.flipboard.com/page-markup-and-formatting/ |
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