The Daily 'Newspaper' is Now Published on iPad

[JMcEntegart]

After weeks of rumors, whispered details from sources, and speculation, News Corp. and Apple have finally launched The Daily, a publication exclusively for Apple’s iPad tablet.

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[joytech22]

They're taking quite a risk, just needing 500,000 to break even is a lot of people for a subscription service, especially one so young.

 

[house70]

Yeah, but I don't use News Corp. to get my news. I prefer objective journalism.

 

[yao]

apple get a 30% cut, that means the daily news corp only makes $27 a year? wow, how can they even profit?

 

[beayn]

How the hell did an Ipad app cost 30 million to develop??? A full blown 3d game that takes 3-4 years to create with 100+ high salary programmers and artists costs that much.. and only sometimes do they exceed a budget like that.

This is a freaking news app..... ?

 

[mayankleoboy1]

The idea is a simple one: get people to subscribe to content they can only get via the iPad and charge them a weekly or monthly fee.

exactly.

 

[eddieroolz]

I'm just very curious as to why anyone will pay to read news, when one can easily hit up multiple news sites - ctv.ca, cbc.ca, msn.com. nbc.com, etc...