It’s a bad game player, a bad app platform, a bad web browser, a bad video player, and, most disappointingly, a bad Kindle.

Most interesting products for today’s world can not easily align with business models created in 1995. I know many smart people who had great prototypes for new products while at Microsoft, who were saddened to learn the escape velocity of a project is, at minimum, greater than the gravity of its two largest businesses (Office & Windows).

Quelli del Telegraph hanno scoperto che i lettori non usano l'iPad per sostituire il giornale di carta, ma piuttosto per leggere le notizie quando non riescono a comprarlo.

Telegraph mobile product development director Tim Rowell says: “People are realising that the iPad is not a direct substitute for the newspaper, they’re arguably complimentary.” [...] Some like News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) are betting on a straight-line conversion over time, from consumption of printed newspapers to consumption of newspaper-like app editions. If this is not the case, the decline of print and emergence of digital may remain less joined up and, inevitably, more complex than publishers had come to hope.

Insomma non è detto che il giornale di carta scompaia. Almeno in tempi brevi.

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