iOS 4.3 could come in December, add subscriptions

Have a look at Wired and The Times (UK newspaper). Both of these seem to manage just fine without new versions of the app. The Wired allows payment for individual issues, and the Times is subscription based (sign up in-app).

I guess this helps people who don't have any e-commerce of their own, and are reliant on the app store as their payment mechanism, but the article suggests that this is the only way to do it.

Just hoping that it fixes the problem with Volvo in car usb that has broken with 4.2.1

A HUGE improvement they could add to iBooks at the same time would be a set of navigation touch points you could use with interactive PDF eBooks.

Jump back to the last page you were on, for instance.

Currently, if a page has a hyperlink jump (Index, Table of Contents, highlighted word), you can go hundreds of pages into the future/past from where you are, and if you didn't note the page number before you jumped, you're spit out of luck getting back there after you go "oh."

There are still a lot of questions about this that I'd like to see answered, including:
o Will I be offered a lower per unit cost if I subscribe for a longer period of time? I see this as a slider that quotes the full subscription and per unit cost as I move the slider along a scale of weeks, months or years as appropriate.

o Will it be possible for zero cost subscriptions? This would be helpful to public service and other organizations who wish to fully underwrite the cost of subscription.

o What will the format of newspapers be? Will they be iOS apps, EPUB documents, PDFs or something new?

o What will the format of magazines be? Will they be iOS apps that fit into a magazine shell, an app within an app?

I doubt it - as there are no 4.3 beta's on the developer portal. Apple usually gives developers at least 3-4 weeks to test their current app's on new iOS versions.

I'm not sure why there's this idea out there that there's no way to do subscriptions without Apple's help, and quite frankly I'm beyond puzzled as to why Time magazine and the rest of them are creating new instances of the app in order to deliver new content.

Have a look at how the Financial Times app works, or even better, The Economist. You enter your subscription information (login/password) that you use to access their locked down websites, and boom, you can download the latest issues on their iPad apps. Neither of these companies need Apple to process their payments and get between them and their subscribers, and it works really well from a consumer standpoint too.

Here's what I don't get - alongside in app purchases, in app subscriptions were announced as part of iPhone OS 3.0! What happened to those? http://gizmodo.com/5171796/iphone-30-os-guide-everything-you-need-to-know

Yeah, I can't wait. But this time it had better not make my iPad's songs and videos disappear. Even after applying the "fix". And now when I play any video it plays twice, for some strange reason.

I have nothing against an update... and it's only been a few days, lol