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I can't vouch for any of this but if it's true then the apps war for magazines will really hot up. Could be back to a Betamax vs VHS situation.

http://zedomax.com/blog/2010/05/04/android-multi-touch-tablet-prototype-hands-on-review-web-2-0-expo/

Labels: Android, Apple, digital magazines, digital revenue, Flash, iPad

Does this article by James McQuivey (an analyst at Forrester Research) from PaidContent – which specifically refers to the plans of magazine publishers – throw light, heat or both on the subject?

In relation to Paul Lomax's tweet in my last post, I especially like this bit:

Apple is handing them a way to justify charging for content. And they like this very, very much. In fact, one publisher came dangerously close to scrapping Flash development altogether (before his internal tech experts talked him out of it) because he realized that in the end, Apple is handing them something the Web never has: a controlled, curated content environment where people pay for content, albeit in the form of software calls apps.

Labels: Apple, digital magazines, distribution, electronic magazines, Flash, HTML5, iTunes iPhone

Anyone tickled by Paul Lomax reporting from the iPad/digital future of magazines session at yesterday's PPA Conference:

PaulLomax: #PPA Consensus from panel (zinio, meredith/nextissuemedia,wired) is that iPad will not be market leader; Others supporting flash will win... - yesterday

might like to have a look at this article by Mark Sigal, in which he draws comparisons between iPhone/Android and Mac/PC.

There's also a slew of stuff emerging about Flash vs HTML5: http://slashdot.org/story/10/04/30/1037230/Microsoft-Tips-the-Scale-In-Favor-of-HTML-5

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/30/head_of_microsofts_internet_explorer_says_html5_is_the_future.html

Labels: Android, Apple, digital magazines, digital revenue, Flash, HTML5, iPad, iPhone, Periodical Publishers Association