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New York Times Launches Pay Plan With Discount, New Android App; iPad Update Coming

The New York Times’s paywall/digital subscription plan, fourteen months in the making, kicks off today with a couple bells and whistles: The paper is offering an introductory discount of $0.99 for four weeks, and has also overhauled its app for Google’s Android phones. Last week, the publisher revised its app for Apple’s iPhone; it says it will have an update for its iPad app, with “several key stability enhancements,” in a few weeks.


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The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer

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