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pdam · 10-11-2006, 08:23 AM

It's been imteresting reading the threads in this forum recently, pulling a few together ...

It appears that iRex are stating that they are still focused on B2B and that development isn't slowing down but in fact expanding to cater for demands from B2B - if this is so and iRex have been in discussion with business for over 6 months at least (as per press releases) - why then have we not seen a single content partnership news item, either an intent or actual partnership?

Secondly - there appears to be a real interest in reading newspapers on the device, or at least this has caught the imagination as key content for the Iliad.

In the UK (Oct 9th ) the Financial Times reported a study stating that in terms of media consumption in Europe, consumption of paper newspapers/magazines, has remained static at about 3 hrs/week and for the first time online access has overtaken use has overtaken this consumption at 4hrs per week.

Why does there appear to be less interest in online only media sources of content, either from online news agencies/sources or community content such as blogs or forums? These readers are a convinient vehicle to both cut treeware AND untether you from always on connections, so why only the focus on paper media? The BBC or Slashdot producing a content package would seem just as logical as the New York Times or the Spectator producing a content package - right?

10-11-2006, 08:23 AM	#1
pdam Groupie Posts: 199 Karma: 100 Join Date: Aug 2006 Device: iLiad, iPaq, Psion5&7, Blackberry	B2B Focus, newspapers and the state of iRex It's been imteresting reading the threads in this forum recently, pulling a few together ... It appears that iRex are stating that they are still focused on B2B and that development isn't slowing down but in fact expanding to cater for demands from B2B - if this is so and iRex have been in discussion with business for over 6 months at least (as per press releases) - why then have we not seen a single content partnership news item, either an intent or actual partnership? Secondly - there appears to be a real interest in reading newspapers on the device, or at least this has caught the imagination as key content for the Iliad. In the UK (Oct 9th ) the Financial Times reported a study stating that in terms of media consumption in Europe, consumption of paper newspapers/magazines, has remained static at about 3 hrs/week and for the first time online access has overtaken use has overtaken this consumption at 4hrs per week. Why does there appear to be less interest in online only media sources of content, either from online news agencies/sources or community content such as blogs or forums? These readers are a convinient vehicle to both cut treeware AND untether you from always on connections, so why only the focus on paper media? The BBC or Slashdot producing a content package would seem just as logical as the New York Times or the Spectator producing a content package - right?