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Subscriptions Available on Apple's App Store

The long-awaited subscription policy has been announced by Apple. Details are on the http://developer.apple.com and in this press release. Lots of articles are appearing, but it probably will take a few days (maybe longer) to get a clear indication of the reactions to the subscription policy because it directly affects many of the media outlets that are reporting on it.

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Magazines on iPad: The New York Times on Newsweek, Wired, and More

In "A Race Between Digital and Print Magazines" The New York Times gets right to the heart of the issue involving long download times for magazines: publishers want to replicate every jot and tittle of the print edition rather than repurposing the content for iPad. Download times are excruciating. It's hard to understand how hard it is for publishers to move to the new model: content is the key, and it's presented in various ways depending on the medium.

Bing/Facebook Integration

Rob Pegoraro writes in the Washington Post about the new Bing/Facebook integration which, along with Google's social search looks like a new adventure in search and the social web.

It also contains a great take on boilerplate text:

(Disclaimer: I don't get paid by the word, which means the effort I spend writing the usual disclaimer about Post Co. chairman Don Graham being on Facebook's board of directors yields me zero financial benefit.)

A Big Week for iOS: PDFs in FileMaker Go and File/Cloud Access in iWork

It's been a big week in the iOS world. The major news comes from FileMaker Go and the three iWork apps (Numbers, Pages, and Keynote). What's most important is the common thread: the ability to integrate iPad even more closely with other platforms using tools such as email and cloud computing as implemented both by MobileMe's iDisk and by any WebDAV server to which you have access. Together with iOS 4.2 with its support for printing (coming in November), a number of the to-do items for iPad and iPhone have been knocked off the list. 

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