Publications like the FT just want direct access to contact info to re-sell it and inundate besieged consumers with even more advertising spam. Fortunately, Apple’s App Store introduces protective, insulating curation between consumer’s private data and publishers.

I prefer to limit access to my contact info and let the more innovative and trustworthy company help manage my subscriptions and deliver a more consistent media buying and consumption experience.

Finally, the FT is a venerable British pubication, but it also is a Microsoft shop and that spouts venomous, anti-Apple rhetoric ad nauseum. The company’s position on the App Store issue is compromised by numerous conflicts of interest, and is just one more example of why the FT lacks credibility when discussing anything Apple.

Finally, most digital media publishers, including the FT, have not yet acknowledged (nor accounted for in pricing) the fact that consumers now pay for the modern, digital distribution systems through iPad, iPhone purchases and Internet bandwidth subscriptions.

Modern publishers need to get their heads out of their rear ends and wake up to the fact that new technology cedes control to consumers. This means the digital publishing business model is destined to change.

Cheers !