Broken?
I downloaded this after a long interval of reading on the web or on paper. Crashes on launch, sadly.
Association for Computing Machinery could do better
I am disappointed that the premier professional organization for computing professionals couldn't deliver a higher quality app. Setting aside the fact that it looks like it was built by a Ph.D. Grad student in the 1990s for X11 Motif, it crashed on me twice just trying to open the current issue.
Unusable
It blows when opening any image on an article.
Good but can be a lot better
The app works, and the content is great, but it is impossible to share the articles (app crash) and the user experience is limited. ACM should follow the example of their Interactions app
HD? low res! Poor UI design!
I downloaded CACM HD to read the current magazine issue on my retina display. But the article is so low resolution, it looks like an intern scanned the paper version and jpg compressed it until it had a size of 8kb - I'll stick with the pdf or web version - How come the worlds best in computer science publish their papers with ACM, but ACM itself seems to know nothing about how to build functional and pleasing websites, portals, applications or eMagazines ... Read some of those papers will you. Or at least read the Human Interface Guidelines for iOS and the Wikipedia article about High Definition!
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Disappointing
All the usual good CACM content, but the app provides a very poor user experience. It is slow to use, and does not support offline access. This results in a significant wait on page turns, making it painful to use.
Direct to web is better.
I have used a lot of apps on the iPad for reading magazine content. I've reviewed the leading ones in my blog. This is the absolute worst of all I have ever used. It crashes. It does not handle figures properly. And the interface seems to go out of its way to prevent you from doing what you could have done by just using Safari. To whomever worked on this app. I'm sorry. You need to actually try a few reader apps, and then go back and try to use this one to actually read the whole magazine.
ACM: BE EMBARRASSED to have your name associated with this app.
ACM: BE EMBARRASSED to have your name associated with this app.
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Buggy
The application doesn't work on ios 6.1.3 It crashes immediately after I sign in. I reported this bug almost a year ago and nothing has changed. I find it a bit ironical that ACM cannot build a good app for the community.
Not working
In Ipad 1 it crashes immediately after opening.
Still crashes on iPad 2
If this gets fixed, I might be able to say more about this app...
Crashes at startup
Displays "Loading..." and crashes. The "update" didn't help.
Crashes...
Also this new version crashes shortly after the login. Please fix it!
crashes on ipad mini
It crashes immediately after entering credentials.
unbelievable
It crashes just after login and nobody cares, at least for one year!
Does not work
Incredible that the official app from ACM seems to crash just after opening.
Version 1.0 crashes
Like others already mentioned - app crashes after you sign-in. Needs an update for the newer iOS version
It crashes all the time
Still trying to get it to work...
Poor
The article content is there, but the interface is awkward, there appears to be no offline reading, and the login-every-time thing makes this "app" feel like a bad swallow of a web page. Some aspects are good, but on the whole this app needs some serious help. I'm hoping for a redesign rather than an update; until then it ranks as the first app I will actually delete.
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Crash after login
App crash with no alert message after login.
Fairly Disappointing
I love that I can get the CACM contention my iPad easily.
What I really don't love is the user experience of this app:
- It doesn't save your user name and password in the keychain, so you have to enter it every time. This is a real impediment to using the app, especially if you use a reasonable password for your ACM account.
- It's not Retina everywhere. It's been many months since the iPad with Retina Display came out, but many graphical assets haven't been updated. At least it shows real text, not bitmaps (like many terrible magazine apps show), so reading is itself easy.
- It's poorly organized. The sidebar/article layout would be much better if it were a traditional iPad-style master-detail split view layout (with popover/slide-out in portrait orientation) than the way it's currently set up. Similarly, it has "tabs" across the top that would be far better implemented as a tab controller in the master part of the master-detail view.
- It doesn't use Newsstand. "The Communications of the ACM" is the perfect candidate for a Newsstand app and should really be one. This would let it download the latest issue in the background automatically, show the latest cover as its icon, and so on. It would also show what a Newsstand app could be, as (if the above issues are addressed) it would take advantage of the iOS platform well to provide a good reading experience.
Fortunately all of the above issues should be fairly straightforward to overcome, and I'm hopeful that they will be. Perhaps the ACM would consider making the app Open Source so members can contribute to making it great,
What I really don't love is the user experience of this app:
- It doesn't save your user name and password in the keychain, so you have to enter it every time. This is a real impediment to using the app, especially if you use a reasonable password for your ACM account.
- It's not Retina everywhere. It's been many months since the iPad with Retina Display came out, but many graphical assets haven't been updated. At least it shows real text, not bitmaps (like many terrible magazine apps show), so reading is itself easy.
- It's poorly organized. The sidebar/article layout would be much better if it were a traditional iPad-style master-detail split view layout (with popover/slide-out in portrait orientation) than the way it's currently set up. Similarly, it has "tabs" across the top that would be far better implemented as a tab controller in the master part of the master-detail view.
- It doesn't use Newsstand. "The Communications of the ACM" is the perfect candidate for a Newsstand app and should really be one. This would let it download the latest issue in the background automatically, show the latest cover as its icon, and so on. It would also show what a Newsstand app could be, as (if the above issues are addressed) it would take advantage of the iOS platform well to provide a good reading experience.
Fortunately all of the above issues should be fairly straightforward to overcome, and I'm hopeful that they will be. Perhaps the ACM would consider making the app Open Source so members can contribute to making it great,
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