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The Kindle kerfuffle - updated
February 1, 2011: 12:35 PM ETApple's rejection of a Sony Reader app has analysts leaping to conclusions about Amazon
Source: Sony
[Apple has clarified, sort of. See below.]
Here we go again.
A New York Times story Tuesday quoting a frustrated Sony (SNE) executive has triggered a flurry of similar-sounding headlines:
- Electric Pig: Apple bans Sony ebooks in iTunes app store: is Kindle next?
- The Next Web: Apple is tightening App Store policies. Is the Kindle app in danger?
- SlashGear: Apple blocks Sony Reader app: new in-app purchase rules could scupper Kindle
What got this started? The key passage in the Times story:
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Rupert Murdoch's The (iPad) Daily gets a launch date - sort of
A sister publication sets the week of Jan. 17 for the tablet-only newspaper's debut
The most-talked about daily newspaper this year -- indeed, the only newspaper that seems to be generating any buzz -- is The Daily, the semi-secret iPad publication being assembled with an all-star cast of editors on the 26th floor of the News Corp.'s (NWS) Manhattan skyscraper for Australian-born press baron Rupert Murdoch.
When will we get to read MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 17, 2010 11:06 AM ETPosted in: Apple, iPad, News Corporation, Newspaper, Peter Kafka, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs, Tablets, The Daily, Time Inc. -
Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch, BFF?
Not likely. One is a life-long Democrat. The other runs a right-wing media empire.
The Sunday Guardian, borrowing a phrase and most of its facts from a Woman's Wear Daily piece posted three days earlier, describes Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs as "a major fan" of Rupert Murdoch.
Come again?
Could someone who dated Joan Baez and put Al Gore on his board of directors really be a "fan" of the man who MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 21, 2010 10:31 AM ETPosted in: Al Gore, Apple, iPad, Joan Baez, Michael Wolff, New York Post, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs, Tablets, The Daily
