Technology|June 20, 2011 5:43 pm

New York Post blocks iPad access through Safari browser, hopes you’ll pay for a subscription instead

Well, that’s the single approach to have people compensate for puns. The New York Post, that citadel of fair, balanced, as well as not-at-all sensationalistic reporting, has shut off iPad owners from celebration of the mass the stories by the tablet’s Safari browser. If folks wish the full brief upon Hugh Hefner removing ditched during the altar, they’ll be stirred to download the iOS app, that requires signing up for the subscription starting during $6.99 upon the month-to-month basis. Setting in reserve News Corp.’s hubris for the moment, what’s peculiar about this is the series of workarounds Rupert Murdoch & Co. left us cheapskates. You can still review the site upon the desktop browser or the phone, together with an Android one. Basically, then, News Corp. is slaying web access, though usually for the name organisation of readers. That’s the sheer contrariety from alternative calm providers (even the News Corp-owned Wall Street Journal), that have been some-more platform-agnostic. Then again, there’s the low probability that News Corp. targeted the iPad in an bid to re-brand the Post as the glossier arrange of tabloid, à la The Daily. To that you say, that’s a little sad meditative there, Rupe.

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