Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad newspaper, was announced today in New York. The Daily will cost $0.99 per week, or $40 per year, and is promising to include over 100 pages of original news in each issue. The Daily is now available in the iPad app store. The newspaper will be billed automatically to customers iTunes accounts, on a weekly or annual basis.
Content for the iPad delivered Daily includes:
- Over 100 pages of original news, life, entertainment, opinion and sports-every single day of the year
- Original video content
- A selection of articles read aloud
- 360 degree photos you can explore by swiping
- Immersive photography
- Interactive charts, info-graphics and clickable ‘hot spots’
- The option to save articles to read later
- Web-friendly versions of articles you can share via Twitter, Facebook and email
- In-app comments – including audio comments
- Your local weather
- Your favorite sports teams’ scores, news and feeds
- Crossword and Sudoku puzzles
The trick to the publication’s success will be in the quality of journalism it can provide, News Corp execs have said. The $30 million dollar question, says Poynter, is who will subscribe and how many. The Daily is facing a Web full of free content.
The New York Times has been talking up its own competition, the News.Me app. It makes heavy use of social media profiling to build its content, a lot like Flipboard, but it includes content licensed-in from other news organizations, so it’s a paid app that delivers more traditional news than you may find elsewhere online.
More than 1 in 5 Americans will own a tablet by 2014, says a new survey by Harris Interactive, and 37 percent of them will own them for business use, according to the survey. About half of all tablet owners plan to use the devices for social networking.
The big four US wireless carriers all introduced tablets and new smartphones. They include:
- AT&T Mobility: AT&T will launch two LTE-capable tablets in the summer of 2011 but gave no specifics on those devices. It currently carries the iPhone and iPad, of course.
- Verizon Wireless: Motorola’s Xoom tablet and Cisco’s Cius Tablet, as well as smartphones including the HTC Thunderbolt, LG Revolution, Motorola Droid Bionic and Samsung 4G LTE.
- Sprint-Nextel: HTC Evo Shift (WiMAX phone with sliding qwerty keyboard, Android 2.2), BlackBerry Playbook (BlackBerry tablet OS, 1 GHz, Adobe Mobile AIR support).
- T-Mobile USA: T-Mobile G-Slate (HSPA+-capable running Android 3.0, Honeycomb), Dell Streak 7 (7-inch tablet, HSPA+, Android 2.2, NVIDIA’s Tegra 2).
Gartner lowered its projection for worldwide PC shipments in 2010 to 352.4 million units, a 14.3 percent increase from last year. Gartner previously projected shipments to grow by 17.9 percent. The emergence of new devices such as tablets and the weak economic outlook contributed to Gartner’s decision to revise its forecasts. Tablets could displace around 10 percent of PC units by 2014, according to Gartner. Apple sold nearly 15 million iPads in 2010, launching the tablet in mid-year.
Tablet news has arrived. It could be a new age for newspapers. Or not
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