The New York Post has gone from showing iPad users visiting its Web site an ad promoting its iPad app to blocking access altogether.
[ad#Google Adsense 300×250 in story]The online version of the newspaper will no longer allow iPad users to see any content. When you visit the Web site now, you are redirected to a page that reads in part:
“Thanks for coming! NYPOST.com editorial content is now only accessible on the iPad through the New York Post App.”
The app, available on the App Store, costs $1.99. Subscriptions through the app cost $6.99 for one month, $39.99 for six months, and $74.99 for a year.
The Web site is still accessible using the iPhone even though the company also has an iPhone app.
AppleInsider reports that nypost.com is still available on iPad browsers other than Safari.
Well I am definitely going to run as fast as I possibly can to not buy their app.
Idiots.
Calling the NY Post a “newspaper” is being charitable.
Boy, these guys sure know how to make people want to do business with them – NOT!!
These must be the guys who pay a consultant millions of dollars to suggest ways to improve their bottom line. The consultant does copious study and shows that a slight decrease in price, they could double their profit. They pay the consultant his millions and then raise their prices.
Well, they really don’t have anything worth buying anyway.The public says to the NYP: Surely you jest?NYP replies: No! And don’t call me Shirley!
What a brilliant, considerate way of keeping consumers untouched by News Corp.’s gossip-rag fecal matter.
All humanity has to know is that they called The Daily the ‘NY Post goes to college’. That alone should say enough and I’m from NY.
Yes, that is of course the right way to attract new customers.
Ho-hum. Can’t remember the last time I read ANY newspaper.