Jon Hamm doesn’t know what an iPhone or an App is? Don Draper would be so disappointed. Good thing Lena Dunham and her challenging pants are around to help fill him in and introduce The New Yorker’s new iPhone app.
Jon Hamm doesn’t know what an iPhone or an App is? Don Draper would be so disappointed. Good thing Lena Dunham and her challenging pants are around to help fill him in and introduce The New Yorker‘s new iPhone app.
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the market might finally get the boost it needs with today’s launch of Next Issue Media, a Netflix-like platform for magazines from the world’s biggest publishers.
Tablets, specifically the iPad, were supposed to save the magazine industry, and it turns out that digital subscriptions make up a solitary percentage point of the industry’s circulation. However, the market might finally get the boost it needs with today’s launch of Next Issue Media, a Netflix-like platform for magazines from the world’s biggest publishers.
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Malcom Gladwell has captured the essence of the book — and the man — in his 3,000-word review in the current New Yorker.
Walter Isaacson’s biography of Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs leapt to the top of bestseller lists in its first week in book stores, flying off shelves to the tune of 379,000 copies.
The only problem with this book is that it has 630 pages. If you haven’t been able to bring yourself to read book, Malcom Gladwell has captured the essence of the book — and the man — in his 3,000-word review in the current New Yorker.
Gladwell’s thesis is that Jobs, at heart, was an information-age version of those 18th and early 19th century engineers who put Britain in the forefront of the industrial revolution by creating and perfecting the automatic mule for spinning cotton. Such men, according to a recent article by economists Ralf Meisenzahl and Joel Mokyr, provided the “micro inventions necessary to make macro inventions highly productive and remunerative.”
Buy the book here. Buy the iOS version of the biography here. Or get it for free in audiobook format here.
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GOINGS ON is a guide to New York City culture from the staff of The New Yorker. Download for in-depth event listings and recommendations by the best critics in the world.
GOINGS ON is a guide to New York City culture from the staff of The New Yorker. Download for in-depth event listings and recommendations by the best critics in the world.
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Popular comedic actor Jason Schwartzman presents The New Yorker app, designed specifically for the iPad.
Popular comedic actor Jason Schwartzman presents The New Yorker app, designed specifically for the iPad. The light hearted video sees the film star talk us through the capability and indeed how to use the application. Updated daily the New Yorker is now available in its most accessible form to date.
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