Posts tagged as ipads
Let's Say the 'New Yorker' iPad Publication Makes $58K a Week
The data we're allowed to have from places like Conde Nast makes it a little difficult to parse, but this helps: "between its eight magazines with tablet editions, the company has 242,000 digital customers." Good night, nurse! Your revolution is... maybe next year? (That being said, I'd love to see income numbers from that. It's gotta be somewhere from $1.2 million to $2.6 million, I figure? The problem is counting people who get iPad access "bundled" with magazine subscriptions; where people get counted is important!) And language is tricky! READ MORE
Yankee Stadium's iPad-Averse Policies Will Force You To Pay Attention To The Field
Yankee Stadium has banned the iPad from its confines, citing its previously announced nixing of laptops as the reason for doing so. The most surprising aspect of this development? Commenters on the geek-"news" site Mashable are actually being sort of reasonable about the whole thing! "If you want to be THAT person with the iPad at a game, go right ahead," said one person; "What about leaving a bit internet and enjoying real life?!" exclaimed another. Could we be seeing the initial stages of early-adopter technology fatigue? Or are the contrarian impulses of commenter culture having their circuits blown by this development? [Pic via]
Barack Obama Is Your New iPad
I had no plans to buy an iPad-I have no plans to ever buy an iPhone, and if I do you are authorized to strike me in the face with something sharp and rusty-so I did not really follow the frenzy of speculation on all the functions what we until very recently referred to as the Apple Tablet might contain. Still, I'm a little taken aback by the immediate and vocal lack of enthusiasm for the product. What does it lack? What was everyone hoping for that did not materialize? This is a very rough thought that I may or may not refine, so take it as such, but the iPad is a lot like Barack Obama: Everyone was able to project their own fantasies and aspirations on a product with which they were mostly unfamiliar, only to sour on it once they realized that it did not live up to their impossible expectations. Only with the iPad it took about seven minutes for the disappointment to set in. I don't know what that says about our accelerated culture or how we confuse hype and excitement for the tangible realities of life, but it says something. I mean, probably. Like I said, I'm still trying to work it all out.
