[Update] NYT doesn’t want people to read it’s content, hissy fit over feed reader that…reads feeds..

From here on out, I can honestly say that I wouldn’t care if every “good ol boys” print media corporation closed up shop and died. They obviously don’t know what the hell they’re doing in this new fangled digital age we live in. Nothing highlights this better than the NYT’s latest hissy fit over iPhone app “Pulse”.

Pulse was a paid app that pulled news stories from the NYT’s actual feed as well as many other news outlets. The NYT’s complained to Apple about the whole paid/copyright issue and Apple complied, removing Pulse.

The real problem here is this: There’s thousands of apps and services across multiple devices and platforms that do this very same thing. Limiting it to Pulse (which until now didn’t have a ton of publicity) doesn’t make sense. Then again, decisions from dying, bassakwards businesses rarely do — hence their down-spiraling.

The devs behind Pulse have stated that they’re simply going to remove the NYT’s feed from the app and re-submit. Good for Pulse, bad for NYT. Though if the NYT is trying to distance themselves from the digital mindset that is increasingly overtaking society, so be it. NYT who…?

**Update: And just like that — Pulse is back in the App Store. However, how it got back so quickly is unbeknownst to us…and Pulse. According to co-creator Akshay Kothari, they haven’t the slightest why it’s back again. Perhaps Apple realized the ridiculous claims made by the NYT, hmm?

Newspapers going the way of the auto industry – succombing to the digital age?

When you hear the words “auto industry” in this day and age, it is hard to think of a properous and youthful market.  One that is expanding and on the leading edge of automotive technology.  However, we all know that the U.S. auto industry is anything but “leading edge” or prosperous.  Unfortunately, they aren’t the only market to start feeling the pinch of not only economic times, but also the technological times as technology and digitized goods become more and more a part of our daily lives.  So what area of the market has been thrust into the spotlight claiming to be in the most dire need of help and a solution?  The newspaper industry.