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The App Store is a service for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad created by Apple Inc. which allows users to browse and download applications from the iTunes Store that were developed with the iPhone SDK and published through Apple. Depending on the application, they are available either for free, or at a cost. The applications can be downloaded directly to target device, or downloaded onto a computer via iTunes. While Apple has stated that they do not expect to profit from the store, it has been predicted by Piper Jaffray that the App Store could create a profitable marketplace with revenue exceeding US$1 billion annually for the company.

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Open Sky Media launches launches universal app through Texterity/Godengo for Marin Magazine that tries to bridge the gap between replica edition and native design

While there are dozens of digital publishing vendors that are one-trick ponies, selling replica editions and nothing else, other vendors can see that while their main competition today comes from other replica makers, over time their competition really is native digital publishing solutions.

Douglas Hebbard @ Talking New Media - on 19/3/13
As many newspapers abandon the ad model digital publishing vendors are there to pick it back up and profit

The biggest trend in newspapering is the paywall, but a related trend is the abandoning of the ad model.

Douglas Hebbard @ Talking New Media - on 19/3/13
Media app updates: Future plc and Digital First Media take opposite approaches to the new digital platforms; RetailMeNot adds AirPrint to coupon mobile app

A large number of media app updates were issued last night and this morning. One of the media companies updating its portfolio of app is Future plc. The UK and US magazine company uses its own platform, FutureFolio, to build and launch its magazine apps – the platform allows for both native and replica edition apps.

Douglas Hebbard @ Talking New Media - on 19/3/13
Morning Brief: Situation calm in Cyprus ahead of vote on levy on bank deposits; Chicago Sun-Times goes free with its native iPad edition; more media app updates to come

Despite some protests yesterday from citizens upset with the government's decision to levy a special tax on bank deposits, the Cypriot government will try and win a vote today in the nation's parliament. The only concession the government appears ready to offer is that bank deposits for amounts below €20,000 will be exempt.

Douglas Hebbard @ Talking New Media - on 19/3/13
The Washington Post confirms that it will launch a metered paywall this summer, launch new iPad app

The Washington Post made official what has, until now, been a badly kept secret, that the paper will launch a metered paywall for its newspaper website. Like other papers before it, the WaPo said that it was pursuing a me-too strategy following the launch of paywalls at the WSJ, NYT, Boston Globe and other papers.

Douglas Hebbard @ Talking New Media - on 18/3/13
What if every ‘like’ and ‘favorite’ came with money? Flattr makes it possible

A lot of people want Flattr — or something like it — to work. Monetizing online content is a continuing problem, and micropayments may provide a solution. Flattr is probably the best-known exponent of these virtual tips, or “microdonations” as it calls them, and a few content platforms such as DailyMotion have signed up to allow their users to make pocket-money off their videos.

David Meyer @ PaidContent - on 18/3/13
London-based magazine media association FIPP launches universal app for 'Magazine World'

It is a sad fact that both magazine and newspaper trade associations, as well as their support trade media magazines, have lagged behind in digital media – sometimes embarrassingly so.

Douglas Hebbard @ Talking New Media - on 15/3/13
30 best iPhone and iPad apps this week

Triptease, Ridiculous Fishing, MessageMe, Intuit Pay, The Great Brain Experiment, Field Trip, Look and Find Elmo, The Croods and more.

Stuart Dredge @ MediaGuardian - Mobile - on 15/3/13
Rumble begins to sign up local and regional newspapers for their identical free mobile and tablet apps. sold under the vendor's name

Last year in November the app developer Rumble announced that it had secured $1 million in investment and had created seven positions in sales and marketing.

Douglas Hebbard @ Talking New Media - on 15/3/13
Apple's Newsstand attracts sharks as the app review team appears to have gone missing

If the mobile platform wars were real wars I sometimes wonder if Apple's iTunes team has been infiltrated by double agents working for Google and Amazon. iTunes itself remains a horribly buggy, slow mess of a software program and the App Store looks like it has been designed to make it impossible to find anything.

Douglas Hebbard @ Talking New Media - on 14/3/13

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