NPA wants to ban BBC iPhone Apps

see here


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;Not for the first time, the BBC is preparing to muscle into a nascent market and trample over the aspirations of commercial news providers,; said David Newell, director of the NPA.

He said that the market for iPhone news apps was ;a unique and narrow commercial space; that would be ;distorted; by the BBC apps.

;This is not, as the BBC argues, an extension of its existing online service, but an intrusion into a very tightly defined, separate market.;





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Mr Newell said the development of apps ;for a niche market does not sit comfortably with the BBC's mission to broadcast its content to a wide, general audience.
;We strongly urge the BBC Trust to block these damaging plans, which threaten to strangle an important new market for news and information.;




I haven't really had a chance to think about the rights and wrongs, I hope people will discuss in this thread.

However, my emotional, knee-jerk reaction is eff off Newell! There's a BBC website, there's BBC iPlayer, i've paid my licence fee so I should be able to access BBC content from as many different content vehicles as I like

I hope this does not mean the app gets delayed - on iPhone or any other mobile platform.