iPad Getting a Subscription Infrastructure? 94
itwbennett writes "Peter Smith is blogging about an article in the San Jose Mercury News leaking news that Apple is 'almost ready to take the wraps off a new system to support subscriptions. The terms, if the leaks are accurate, sound less than ideal for publishers though. Apple will take 40% of advertising revenue, and 30% of subscription fees from participating publishers. In return, Apple will offer consumers the ability to opt-in to sharing their data with the publishers.' Apple isn't commenting on the speculation. 'In somewhat related news, Apple has released iOS 4.2 to developers. This is the version of iOS that will let iPads, iPhones and iPad Touches print to a WiFi-enabled or shared printer on a local network, via the new AirPrint service. It sounds like you'll be able to print articles from your digitally delivered newspaper before too long,' says Smith."
Obviously talking to the experts (Score:2, Interesting)
From the article:
"If you can put animation and multimedia into ads, that will greatly enhance reader views. I am certain of that."
hmm...
Three words (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Where's the FEC to regulate when needed? (Score:2, Interesting)
Are you advocating more regulation?
Canada fared better because we had regulations that discouraged sub-prime mortgages
I was merely responding to what appeared to be a call for regulation because the OP did not like the idea of a particular company being successful rather than there being an immediate need for regulation.
Re:Wow (Score:4, Interesting)
iPod owning retards will finally be able to do yet another thing they could have done better all along had they bought a laptop in the first place.
Did you pull your laptop out of your pocket to post that?
Re:Printers? (Score:2, Interesting)
The ink doesn't dry out and can be used practically forever.
Toner wouldn't work too well if it wasn't dried out ;}
Kidding aside, my HP 4mv is still going like a champ, and it was made back in 1995.
When I first got it, it was used to print billing invoices, somewhere around 6000 sheets a month.
This ate through about 2-3 toner cartridges a year.
In it's later life as my personal printer, seeing very low page counts, a toner cartridge easily lasted 5+ years.
Most printers of this type either have built in or can have added on network support, and they spoke more protocols than you will know what to do with, for a ton of hardware. Odds are TCP and PCL is all one will use these days however.
I could never recommend an inkjet to anyone, period.
Re:Where's the FEC to regulate when needed? (Score:0, Interesting)
And you were wrong. The "scapegoat the ghetto" theory of the mortgage crises was a shameful defensive posture of a housing industry that tried to deflect the blame for gaming the system and creating exotic securities that turned to junk. In the face of the housing bubble, subprime loans to "inner city" denizens were but a tiny blip. The fact that people continue to propagate that debunked nonsense only demonstrates how Americans rush to blame minorities for everything possible, and many things that are patently impossible.
(batablam)
Re:Wow (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Where's the FEC to regulate when needed? (Score:3, Interesting)
This is going off-topic, but you're right; people have oversimplified.
It's the same basic problem as taxes and spending. It's not just an issue of whether the government is taxing too much or too little, but an even bigger issue is, who are they taxing and for what behavior? Similarly, there's not a simple dollar amount that the government should spend, and if they spend that amount everything will be good. The question is, what are they spending that money on?
Really these are all complicated issues, but there are a lot of people who need it to be bring everything down to a yes-or-no answer.