Back in the day, we dished up our royals about to say “I do” with a commemorative plate. But in case you doubted 1981 was a really, really long time ago, look no further than to your left at young Prince Charles and the late Lady Di, currently selling on a site called eBid for $3.25.
To commemorate next month’s wedding of their son, Prince William to long-time sweetheart Kate Middleton, no crappy plate that won’t appreciate will do. Instead, the nuptials for these next-gen royals will be celebrated with an app for your iPad from the Apple Store.
According to MSNBC, the app will “turn your iPad into a guide for the royal wedding,” and be “arranged like a digital magazine…[to provide] access to a real-time feed of photos and articles. There are video features, a virtual guest book which you can sign, a feed of recent tweets about the royal couple, and plenty of interactive content.”
The app will be available on April 9, just three weeks before the royal wedding on April 29. By then, of course, shortages should abate and you will doing your royal watch on your shiny new iPad 2.
Kathy Drasky regularly writes about online culture. Her marketing and communications work with the ANZA Technology Network, Advance Global Australians and with various Australians and Australian enterprises has led to at least a dozen trips Down Under.
An accomplished digital photographer, her photos have appeared in 7×7 Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and Google Schmap.
