All bets are off, as the big players duke it out in the news industry
Aggregation of news, in its purest form is fetching news headlines and presenting them for consumers to read through. In the old days, this was a preserve of desktop news readers that users would download from the internet and load RSS links to consume.
How far we have come in today’s word
With the ever increasing shift away from desktop-based data consumption to a more web-based setup, more and more people are hitting the uninstall button on their newsreader software! Subsequently, they are switching to online services like Google news and other systems that crawl the web 24 hours day every day, constantly accumulating news, images, movies and other media meant for display on a centralized platform.
IN recent years, of course, as a reaction, the print media has tried to get in on the game by moving its operations to the internet to counter the growing popularity of aggregators… not an easy job in view of the fact that aggregators have the benefit of having multiple headlines from multiple sources..meaning the user has a digital one-stop superstore for news and current affairs updates.
Enter the iPhone and the iPad