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NY Post Goes App-Only For iPad Users

Posted by samzenpus on from the jumping-through-hoops dept.

bfwebster writes "Browsing the web this morning, I discovered that the New York Post is blocking iPad users from reading its website via Safari. Instead, iPad users must download and use the NY Post App instead. That app previously required a paid subscription (which is one reason I didn't use it); however, the version I downloaded this morning isn't making any demands for payment. Yet."

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  1. Yet ... by GPLHost-Thomas · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Like many, I don't care, and I wont use an iPad or Safari. Why is this important exactly?

  2. Re:And so it begins... by node+3 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Um... This has absolutely *nothing* to do with the so-called "walled garden". The real moral here is that slashdot nerds will twist anything about Apple to portray them as the bad guys.

    Over 200 million people have iOS devices, over 20 million have iPads. If this "walled garden" really existed in the way it seems to in the minds of the local nerd population, you wouldn't expect Apple to be able to sell so many devices. People don't buy them because they are forced to, or because they are stupid. They buy them because they *want* them.