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Apple launches iPhone and iPad app subscriptions, sparks controversy

Apple’s new subscription billing for iPhone and iPad apps allow developers and publishers to charge recurring subscriptions for magazine, newspaper, video and music apps. The system, launched yesterday, is already controversial, however, with music service Rhapsody saying Apple’s 30 per cent cut of subscription payments will make music services “economically untenable”. The subscription billing was used first by US news …

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iPhone nano rumours scotched, but cheaper iPhone may be coming

Alas, iPhone nano. We barely even knew you at all from online speculation, before you were cruelly snuffed out by… Well, by new online speculation. Still, it was fun while it lasted. A lengthy piece in the New York Times rubbishes reports of a smaller iPhone, suggesting instead that Apple is investigating ways to make a cheaper full-sized version by …

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