So Far, The iPad Is Not Saving Journalism

What we really need here is a “Duh” category: At the end of Day One of Year One, A.iP. (After iPad), free big media apps are doing well but “are barely present in top paid apps,” Rafat Ali at paidContent reports.

Ali adds:

But wait a sec, wasn’t this supposed to be the platform for big media’s paid strategy? What happened? Again, stretching the analysis a bit in these early hours after the launch, one guess is that users realize they can get all the big media content on their browsers anyway, so what’s the point in paying for them, nevermind all the whizbang and interactivity the apps provide.

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