“I think that the press has been all over the iPad because Apple puts on a good show, and because everyone in journalism-land is looking for a daddy figure who’ll promise them that their audience will go back to paying for their stuff. The reason people have stopped paying for a lot of ‘content’ isn’t just that they can get it for free, though: it’s that they can get lots of competing stuff for free, too.
—Cory Doctorow in BoingBoing post: “Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either)”.
I agree, big media is betting too much on iPad. See my posts:
- “Of course media bias favors iPad”
- “Be smart, don’t buy into iPad hype”
- “What 1984 Macintosh marketing reveals about iPad”
Cory isn’t the only journalist looking askance at iPad. My January post: “12 reasons why I won’t buy an Apple iPad”. Right now, big media and iPad go oddly together.
Do you have a journalism, new media or iPad publishing story that you’d like told? Please email Joe Wilcox: oddlytogether at gmail dot com.
