Oprah loves her iPad; reveals her favorite apps

Apple Online Store“We know Oprah’s a fan of the iPad — she gave all her magazine staffers one earlier this year — and she’s spent a fair amount of time finding her favorites among the vast iTunes app store,” Abbey Klaassen reports for Advertising Age.

Oprah’s favorite iPad apps include:
• CNN for iPhone ($1.99) (pixel-doubled, we presume)
• ABC News for iPad (free)
• Brushes – iPad Edition ($7.99)
• SketchBook Pro ($7.99)
• SCRABBLE for iPad ($9.99) (which she says she plays while on the treadmill???)

Klassen reports, “She also said she reads magazines and newspapers on it. Except, perhaps, her own? The O App hasn’t launched yet but, said O Editor Susan Casey, who interviewed her mag’s namesake, it’s coming Nov. 16.”

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Sounds like Oprah’s Kindle is gathering dust.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jigar T.” for the heads up.]

62 Comments

  1. Hey, the Kindle is a nice complimentary device to the iPad, for reading outside, which granted isn’t terribly often but I live in SoCal. I find myself gravitating to Amazon’s Kindle Store because of greater selection and easier search. (And I can download to both iPad and Kindle devices.) Apple’s Bookstore is a disappointment in both selection and search. I know with time many more offerings will be made but why is it taking so long?

  2. Hey, the Kindle is a nice complimentary device to the iPad, for reading outside, which granted isn’t terribly often but I live in SoCal. I find myself gravitating to Amazon’s Kindle Store because of greater selection and easier search. (And I can download to both iPad and Kindle devices.) Apple’s Bookstore is a disappointment in both selection and search. I know with time many more offerings will be made but why is it taking so long?

  3. Great! Now we’ll have the Oprah iPad AppClub… ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”angry” style=”border:0;” />

    MDN: “Sounds like Oprah’s Kindle is gathering dust.” And her BHO will soon be next to her Kindle!

  4. Great! Now we’ll have the Oprah iPad AppClub… ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”angry” style=”border:0;” />

    MDN: “Sounds like Oprah’s Kindle is gathering dust.” And her BHO will soon be next to her Kindle!

  5. Is there a KPFA / KPFK app? There is your non-corporate news. I hope she watches Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow!

    (look forward to the comments on what constitutes REAL news)

    lol

  6. Is there a KPFA / KPFK app? There is your non-corporate news. I hope she watches Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow!

    (look forward to the comments on what constitutes REAL news)

    lol

  7. As my aunt remarked to me last week: “Hey, that Kindle thing is pretty cool. My friend Stella reads her daily scripture on it and just LOVES it!” (Wait for it.) “So, what else does it do?

    “Uh, well, Auntie, (says I) it doesn’t do ANYTHING else, I’m afraid to say. No internet browsing, no email sending or receiving, no productivity apps, no games, no movies, no music, no individual customization, NO NOTHING!”

    Her rather astonished response: “Then what good is it? I’ve already got a library full of books I haven’t read . . . and I can read them outside too! Looks like a waste of money to me.”

    Well said, Auntie. Well said.

  8. As my aunt remarked to me last week: “Hey, that Kindle thing is pretty cool. My friend Stella reads her daily scripture on it and just LOVES it!” (Wait for it.) “So, what else does it do?

    “Uh, well, Auntie, (says I) it doesn’t do ANYTHING else, I’m afraid to say. No internet browsing, no email sending or receiving, no productivity apps, no games, no movies, no music, no individual customization, NO NOTHING!”

    Her rather astonished response: “Then what good is it? I’ve already got a library full of books I haven’t read . . . and I can read them outside too! Looks like a waste of money to me.”

    Well said, Auntie. Well said.

  9. @ Big Als MBP

    Actually I’m the one who usually pulls the gun on other technology than Apple’s being the huge Apple fan I yam but in this case I think Amazon’s Kindle deserves a break today.

    Is your crap classification for the Kindle from first hand experience or just lifelong unbridled bias?

  10. @ Big Als MBP

    Actually I’m the one who usually pulls the gun on other technology than Apple’s being the huge Apple fan I yam but in this case I think Amazon’s Kindle deserves a break today.

    Is your crap classification for the Kindle from first hand experience or just lifelong unbridled bias?

  11. Oprah’s favorite iPad apps include:
    • CNN for iPhone ($1.99) (pixel-doubled, we presume)
    • ABC News for iPad (free)

    Typical lib. Always looking at herself.

    Take a look at Beck Oprah, you might expand your horizons.

  12. Oprah’s favorite iPad apps include:
    • CNN for iPhone ($1.99) (pixel-doubled, we presume)
    • ABC News for iPad (free)

    Typical lib. Always looking at herself.

    Take a look at Beck Oprah, you might expand your horizons.

  13. @Ron

    STFU with your ‘Typical lib’ bullshit. Why do morons always have to post politics here. For crying out loud, its just a simple article.

    Are you this miserable in real life?

  14. @Ron

    STFU with your ‘Typical lib’ bullshit. Why do morons always have to post politics here. For crying out loud, its just a simple article.

    Are you this miserable in real life?

  15. @Ron- There’s nothing wrong with looking solely at ones self. After all, me and mine is ALL that matters. Everything else is just meaningless mob mentality bullshit, catering to the pathetic human need for control.

    Read Anthem or The Fountainhead sometime, and learn what the true meaning of selfishness is. It’ll change your life and turn you into a person rather than just another part of the herd; another cow…

  16. @Ron- There’s nothing wrong with looking solely at ones self. After all, me and mine is ALL that matters. Everything else is just meaningless mob mentality bullshit, catering to the pathetic human need for control.

    Read Anthem or The Fountainhead sometime, and learn what the true meaning of selfishness is. It’ll change your life and turn you into a person rather than just another part of the herd; another cow…

  17. Oprah apparently loves her iPad so much, but all the videos on her website are all Flash-based which won’t play on the iPad. I have a feeling that Oprah’s never even used her iPad before.

  18. Oprah apparently loves her iPad so much, but all the videos on her website are all Flash-based which won’t play on the iPad. I have a feeling that Oprah’s never even used her iPad before.

  19. The above posters who refer to Faux Noise as “real news” are sad examples of the devolution of human capacity to distinguish reporting from propaganda. Not that I’m saying ABC is a bastion of journalistic purity, but give me a freakin’ break, go outside and have a look at reality every now and again. Facts have a well-known liberal bias. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />

  20. The above posters who refer to Faux Noise as “real news” are sad examples of the devolution of human capacity to distinguish reporting from propaganda. Not that I’m saying ABC is a bastion of journalistic purity, but give me a freakin’ break, go outside and have a look at reality every now and again. Facts have a well-known liberal bias. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />

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