Online

The Financial Times Becomes First Newspaper To Take On Apple

As promised, the Financial Times has stuck its middle finger up at Apple, by launching a HTML5 web app instead of an iPad app, so they can keep that 30 per cent cut Apple would’ve taken for… not doing much.


April 5, 2011
Software

First Major Newspaper To Tell Apple To Shove Its Subscription Plans

Was wondering when this would happen: The Financial Times is the first major paper to publicly and explicitly say “thanks, but no thanks” to Apple’s new iOS subscription model, which would require giving up 30 per cent of the subscription revenue to people who sign up through the app.