I’ve never been too satisfied with news Apps on the iPad. Early, the various news Apps were too buggy so I stayed with Google News – which normally works quite well and learns to deliver interesting-to-me news, which makes it better than any App. However, recently I started using Zite, which is very impressive – [...]
The Daily has been hyped for a while now as “the second coming” of news for iPad … maybe I’ll wait for the third coming. My first problem, admittedly on a slower internet connection, was the amount of waiting time to access The Daily (not counting the time to download it) – this display remained [...]
It’s been a while since I looked at iPad news Apps – mainly because I don’t use them! The iPad is quite capable of showing most news in readable form via the Safari browser (or Google Reader), and when I tried news Apps early on most were buggy and/or limited. USA Today in particular, which [...]
News on the iPad continues to be re-invented; one of the latest attempts is from ABC News, offering an unusual world/globe interface: Current stories are wrapped around the globe which you can spin in any direction to view different stories, and tap to call up any story; unfortunately while the globe interface is cool, it’s [...]
Previously, I liked The Guardian Eyewitness, but it’s first update has basically trashed it! There was always the issue that, after first downloading it and enjoying all the photos, you get only one new one each day – but at least you can look back, and keep favorites. Well, after the update, you can’t: Apparently, [...]
I’ve looked at the first issue of TIME Magazine before, and I wasn’t particularly impressed – too expensive ($5 per issue), and a whole new App for each week … Well, there’s a new TIME Magazine App, and it fixes one of my complaints – it now offers in-App purchasing of each weeks issue, so [...]
The iTunes store classifies this under “photography”, but it’s a fine line whether it belongs there or in “news”; either way, it’s a very nice App that offers beautiful photographs from around the world: The App opens with a full screen photo; at the bottom left is a caption which can be removed (tap the [...]
TIME Magazine App is one of the first “new wave” media attempts on the iPad, and it’s generated lots of opinions; I was very reluctant to “encourage” charging $5 for a single issue of a publication, but since the cover has Steve Jobs I decided to try it! There’s quite a lot to like about [...]
I’m disappointed by the BBC News App; growing up in England, the BBC News is “the” news, so I had great hopes for this App … Sadly, it’s rather too poorly implemented at the moment. The App opens (in landscape mode) with half the screen listing stories (each with a thumbnail image), and half the [...]
I think Reuters News Pro for iPad might be my News App winner; it looks good and offers loads of news stories and pictures, with seemingly no adverts! On the “front page” you scroll vertically to access all the different news topics (which includes top news, business, US and World news, technology, science … as [...]
AP News is another News App choice on the iPad; when I first tried it, I thought it a very different and nice styling, with horizontally scrolling article snippets, below highlighted photo and video choices: It’s possible to customize the included stories (though the process is not “iPad intuitive” and it doesn’t seem possible to [...]
There’s a lot of choice when it comes to News Apps on the iPad (and that’s ignoring all the News websites you can visit!); right now everything is bargain priced (free!), and there are a lot of different ideas on the right way to do News … the New York Times offers an Editors Choice [...]
