A Delay for the Daily: Apple, News Corp. Push Back Launch Date

Turns out you’ll have to wait a bit longer to see the Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s long-awaited iPad news service.

Apple and News Corp. have made a joint decision to push back next week’s planned launch, according to sources familiar with the companies’ plans. The delay is supposed to give Apple time to tweak its new subscription service for publications sold through its iTunes platform.

Plans to debut the iPad newspaper at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art next Wednesday have been tabled “for weeks, not months,” I’m told.

The issue isn’t with the app itself, which News Corp. executives and their proxies have been showing off over the last few weeks, but a new subscription feature that Apple is building into iTunes.

As I noted last month, the Daily was supposed “to use a new “push” subscription feature from Apple, where iTunes automatically bills customers on a weekly or monthly basis, and a new edition shows up on customers’ iPads every morning.”

A PR rep from News Corp., which also owns this Web site, confirmed the delay, but wouldn’t comment further. Apple declined to comment.

Winski

HA!! Another Rupe rag bites the dust… And you’re really buying into the idea that it’s an Apple issue..?? Are you folks nuts??

Rupe’s raiders are trying to pack as many lies into the first edition as possible… pleesszzeee…
Anonymous

Winski – If you are so anti Newscorp, why do you bother to read one of his publications? I thought the “new” tone was one of respectful disagreement? I guess some Progressive’s haven’t gotten the message from the POTUS.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Pierre-F-Lherisson/1019804945 Pierre F. Lherisson

Murdoch’s biased news has been selective and reflect the interest of his folks. It is as worthless as horoscope.
Anonymous

Typical Lib/Marxist – No fact, all attack/accuse/demean/impugn.

Welcome to the era of “respectful disagreement”. Sorry, that is just not in Alinsky’s playbook…
Anonymous

Steph, Winski has no idea AllThingsD is part of the NewsCorp organization. You overestimate his/her/its intellectual capacity.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Pierre-F-Lherisson/1019804945 Pierre F. Lherisson

You should read Alinsky’s books again because you see the world as either black or white or in absolute term. Mr. Saul David Alinsky was a very brilliant community organizer who did not believe in absolute truth and has done much to improve the standard of living of the poor.
I don’t see any links between my initial comment and Marx .This type of theocratic, Gestapo or McCarthyism intimidation has no place in a free society.
Anonymous

Politics aside, I don’t recall any proof that this release was really happening. Just the typical rumors with unnamed sources.

In other words, perhaps there’s nothing being delayed at all. And the issue isn’t the app, Apple or any such. Just merely the sources.
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/ PKafka

There are dozens of people working on this project. It’s real! You can go ask them yourselves.
http://www.openxcell.com/mobile-application-development.html iPhone Application Development

Its great information.
http://www.cygnismedia.com/mobile-phone-application/ipad-application.html iPad Application Development

Going great, loving it

A Delay for the Daily: Apple, News Corp. Push Back Launch Date

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