Good app but no flexibility in price structure
I enjoyed my trial period with this app and did not experience any of the crashes other people have reported, however, I found that I only really wanted either the Saturday edition and/or The Observer. And you don't get the latter with this version of the app and you don't get the option to only have the Saturday edition. I'd be willing to pay half the price for the one or 2 week-end papers, but you don't get the choice, so...sorry - no sale.
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Gorgeous, great for offline, but missing sections
I finished the 81 day free trial two months ago, and still come back to this app almost every day. It's perfect for the subway, because there's no need for an active internet connection.
Nonetheless, this is a smaller edited version of the print or online version. While the interface and portability are great, I've occasionally been on Facebook or Twitter and seen a friend post a great article from the guardian from sometime in the last week, only to find that although I had read all 6 iPad editions that week, had not seen the article.
While I was visiting London I bought the paper edition a few times to compare that day's content and the iPad content. The images and text flow much better in the paper edition, and with the online edition the comments are always entertaining. The in-app browser function could be improved too.
Nicest: paper edition
Fullest: online edition
Most portable: iPad edition
Nonetheless, this is a smaller edited version of the print or online version. While the interface and portability are great, I've occasionally been on Facebook or Twitter and seen a friend post a great article from the guardian from sometime in the last week, only to find that although I had read all 6 iPad editions that week, had not seen the article.
While I was visiting London I bought the paper edition a few times to compare that day's content and the iPad content. The images and text flow much better in the paper edition, and with the online edition the comments are always entertaining. The in-app browser function could be improved too.
Nicest: paper edition
Fullest: online edition
Most portable: iPad edition
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Unsubscribing
To unsubscribe, hold down the Newstand icon until it wiggles, then open the guardian and delete
Best news app for iPad
This is probably the best app in the newsstand. It is formatted well, you can actually select text (it isn't just a huge image file) and now it has instapaper integration for some things (which is a nice way to save content rather than insisting we change our workflow and save things in the app like every other newspaper app). Performance seems to have improved with this update too.
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Disappointed Guardian and you want how much per month?
I'm a great fan of the Guardian and subscribe to the GW from Australia. I subscribe to the iPhone app and was wondering when their iPad app would arrive.
This app is a dumbed down US style Flipboard with NO content. Where is the rich Guardian news content? I'd happily pay $15/ mth for an online subscription to the existing rich content Guardian website but not this content less iPad app.
By comparison, the Economist iPad app (to which I subscribe) has 100% of the printed edition - it is identical. Please scrap this app and copy the Economists 100% approach.
This app is a dumbed down US style Flipboard with NO content. Where is the rich Guardian news content? I'd happily pay $15/ mth for an online subscription to the existing rich content Guardian website but not this content less iPad app.
By comparison, the Economist iPad app (to which I subscribe) has 100% of the printed edition - it is identical. Please scrap this app and copy the Economists 100% approach.
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Style over content
Okay, so the app is quite cool and colorful (the hues are not totally to my taste either) and mercifully bug-free even in the 1.0 version which is no mean feat but my main gripe is the limited nature of the content. I understand that the Guardian have had to compromise between complete content versus push loading etc., but this is far too compromising. Good novelty app when free but doesn't replace print or website so why subscribe when the generous free trial ends?
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The way a newsstand app should be
There are so many really good things about this app. It pushes the new edition every morning, so that I can read it even offline, the quality of the interface and the content are both superb, it comes with a free 3 month trial subscription, you can choose to update the edition later in the day when the evening print edition is published, it integrates sharing without being obtrusive. The Guardian app is the standard by which I measure all other newsstand publications, which means that the bar is set awfully high.
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A total joke
This iteration of my beloved Guardian is the dogs breakfast. Large blocks of useless annoying color adorn the front page with little helpful text. The same holds true for the Sections. In an effort to look hip they have tarted up this app with purples and blues and have ruined navigation.
Don't get me wrong the journalism is still the same and the offline reading is nice. Thats what gets it the two stars. But for an app that I would subscribe to regularly? Not with this poor example of polish.
The Giardian website is still faster, more up to date and easier to use.
Guardian take a tip from the news aggregators. Present the stories to me so I can make choices and not be assaulted by your ideas of a keel color palette.
Don't get me wrong the journalism is still the same and the offline reading is nice. Thats what gets it the two stars. But for an app that I would subscribe to regularly? Not with this poor example of polish.
The Giardian website is still faster, more up to date and easier to use.
Guardian take a tip from the news aggregators. Present the stories to me so I can make choices and not be assaulted by your ideas of a keel color palette.
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Well done guardian people
At last the guardian on iPad. Pricing policy across apple is one global price point that means a pretty high price for us down in oz, but still worth to get a uk news fix. Would like to see more sharing on image banks and some video please. Are they going to drop the ads when the price kicks in?
Great app, let down by download speed.
Really like the app, looks beautiful. However, the issue download speed is highly variable. Sometimes it's a matter of seconds, but most days it takes 15 minutes or more.
