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Technophobe Paul Dacre tries the taste of Apple

Daily Mail editor-in-chief Paul Dacre
Paul Dacre: not a Fruit Ninja fan, apparently. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters

His paper may have a rather popular website, but the Daily Mail editor-in-chief, Paul Dacre, didn't get where he is today by relying on the internet. This is the man, you may remember, who told staff many moons ago: "A lot of people say that the internet is the future for newspapers. Well, I say to that: bullshit.com." But it's all changed now. Happy toilers in Northcliffe Towers say that Dacre, who as folklore has it doesn't even have a computer in his office, has finally succumbed and got himself an iPad. Rumours that he has been punching the glass screen angrily playing Fruit Ninja during enervating sections of conference are wide of the mark, apparently. Let's just call him Paul "The Cloud" Dacre.

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