The increasingly steep growth of Apple device sales (via Chart: In Four Years, Apple Sold More iPhones Than All Macs Ever | TechCrunch)
Ownership of e-readers and tablets nearly doubles in the U.S. over the holidays (via Pew Internet & American Life Project)
To get people to pay for an app, you have to give them something they can’t find anywhere else."
— David Perel of the National Enquirer, on reinventing the gossip mag for the iPad (NYTimes.com)
We will be launching a politics app tailored to the iPad very soon. It is packed not just with great content but with great tools for both the novice and the political junkie. We will be launching our iPad v2 app in 2012, based on a lot of work done this year."
— Katharine Weymouth, hinting at the Washington Post’s app development plans, in her year-end memo
The app developer who does not think HTML5 is awesome is wrong, and quite possibly stupid."
— Paul Hudson, lead app developer at Future, Apps aren’t cannibalising publishers’ print businesses… for now | Technology | guardian.co.uk
All content on tablets and mobile will be paid by the consumer. Our strategy will stand out in the magazine industry."
— John Loughlin, Hearst Magazines general manager, The Hearst Tablet Content of the Future Will All Be ‘Fee,’ Not ‘Free’ :: MinOnline


