BBC, NPA, punch up over iPhone apps
p2pnet view Advertising:- “Not for the first time, the BBC is preparing to muscle into a nascent market and trample over the aspirations of commercial news providers,” says David Newell, director of Britain’s Newspaper Publishers Association.
Quoted by the BBC, his comments come as a row develops between the two.
At the centre of it are iPhone apps.
The BBC Trust “has been urged to block the corporation’s plans to launch phone apps for its news and sport content” says the story, continuing:
“The Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA) said that the corporation would “damage the nascent market”.
“The group said that it would also raise the issues with the the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and MPs on the Media Select Committee.”
The market for iPhone news apps is “a unique and narrow commercial space” that would be “distorted” by the BBC apps, says Newell in the story, adding:
“This is not, as the BBC argues, an extension of its existing online service, but an intrusion into a very tightly defined, separate market.”
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
BBC – Newspaper group call to block BBC iPhone apps, February 8, 2010
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