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Steve Jobs appeared on News Corp’s D8 conference and answered surprisingly probing questions with relative openness. He talked about burning issues such as flash, app approval, Google’s competition, Siri acquisition, the whole iPhone at the bar incident, AT&T and more. If that topic list doesn’t tell you already, this interview of Steve is definitely one of the most revealing ones of recent times.

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… and he still hates Google. That part has not change and will not change in a hurry. When it comes to one of the largest figures in the US media industry, Rupert Murdoch has probably been the most vocal about how he thinks Google is taking their expensive content and making it free for all to use. He of course wants to put it all behind a paywall and be done with it. But before we get into the old world business model versus new world business model debate (it is inevitable, I know), Mr. Murdoch has his say on the iPad. Video follows.

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Rupert Murdoch is the chairman of News Corporation, a company that holds a major stake in the media business of the US. He is famously known for clamping down on this websites to prevent Google from crawling them. He repeated that same sentiment in an interview with Fox Business channel. He is also one of the people responsible for making the eBooks prices rise on Amazon. Hence, the fact that he praises the iPad a lot in the video means a lot more than just a media mogul praising a new platform.

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