Great content, but irritating format
I love the Guardian, but I think this app is trying a bit too hard to look like Windows 8, at the expense of usability. Too much wasted screen real-estate (empty space) with too large fonts. Few story summaries so you have to click to find out what the story is about. And the vertical scrolling is irritating in the same way that a broadsheet format is irritating.
I also read the Sydney Morning Herald app and they've really got it right! Text summaries next to every headline so you don't have to click to find out what the story's about; a compact format thats easy to read but has lots of detail in the summary screens, and a photo for each story so it looks good; and horizontal scrolling only for the summary pages which is a much quicker and easier experience.
I'd agree that $10/mth seems to be the price people are ok with.
Hopefully they'll listen to feedback and I look forward to the cheaper and more comfortable version 2.
I also read the Sydney Morning Herald app and they've really got it right! Text summaries next to every headline so you don't have to click to find out what the story's about; a compact format thats easy to read but has lots of detail in the summary screens, and a photo for each story so it looks good; and horizontal scrolling only for the summary pages which is a much quicker and easier experience.
I'd agree that $10/mth seems to be the price people are ok with.
Hopefully they'll listen to feedback and I look forward to the cheaper and more comfortable version 2.
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Thought I'd found a bug...
...no icon!
But it's gone into that pesky new "newsstand" icon.
You do know we can make our own folders if we really want them, don't you Apple?
Hopefully the update in ios 5.1 will allow us to decide where we want to put our own icons. I currently have the Guardian iPod icon on my front "page" of my iPad, and would prefer that I could do the same should I subscribe to the iPad edition.
The App itself is lovely on first viewing - smooth, pretty easy to navigate etc. Much better on the iPad than the current iPod/iPhone version.
Given that one print issue is now about AU$1.85 weekdays and $3.25 on a Saturday, $15 a month is about a week and a day's print cost for the whole month.
As long as we get access to ALL the sections, that is... would be a shame to miss out on the extra features in G2 and the weekend mags etc.
If the alternative is 2 print copies of The (Melbourne) Age a week versus 6 days of The Guardian? No comparison. Where do i sign?
But it's gone into that pesky new "newsstand" icon.
You do know we can make our own folders if we really want them, don't you Apple?
Hopefully the update in ios 5.1 will allow us to decide where we want to put our own icons. I currently have the Guardian iPod icon on my front "page" of my iPad, and would prefer that I could do the same should I subscribe to the iPad edition.
The App itself is lovely on first viewing - smooth, pretty easy to navigate etc. Much better on the iPad than the current iPod/iPhone version.
Given that one print issue is now about AU$1.85 weekdays and $3.25 on a Saturday, $15 a month is about a week and a day's print cost for the whole month.
As long as we get access to ALL the sections, that is... would be a shame to miss out on the extra features in G2 and the weekend mags etc.
If the alternative is 2 print copies of The (Melbourne) Age a week versus 6 days of The Guardian? No comparison. Where do i sign?
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