Live Coverage of Launch of 'The Daily'

[notabadname]

14 cents per day, $0.99/ week is officially the price. Fair if it is good. Heck, I spend $2.00 a day for a coffee.

 

[D A]

I wonder how stable the app is? They already managed to crash it once.

 

[Doc750]

i say everyone download the app, give it a one star rating and then delete it.

 

[Frosticus]

Paying for quality news is the way forward - people can't expect quality journalism from free newspapers forever.

I hasten to add that I don't consider News Corp to produce quality journalism, but the model works, and a standard way to easily subscribe to or purchase conent will make things more accessible.

Overall, a good thing which will drive improvement in app and content quality.

 

[ChazUK]

I love the look of it so far. Great use of the iPad platform.

 

[Žalgiris]

Looks nice, but 256 MB RAM is not enough for this.

 

[rdowns]

Murdoch stated that Steve Jobs is behind this project. So I think we can be safe from Fox news point of view

Here's an article on their staff and where they come from.

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/...s-come-from-ny-post-ap-the-atlantic-aol-news/

 

[Patrick J]

Laggy scrolling on the "carousel"

 

[Patrick J]

Looks like hyperlinks link to an integrated browser, no opening Safari.

 

[Jeff42037]

Still a Beta

Looks buggy as hell to me

 

[gloss]

I'm honestly getting kind of sick of spending so much time trawling RSS feeds to get my fix on the news. I think I'm about ready to step back and have the good stuff spoon-fed to me by a team of pros.

This sounds good to me.

 

[murkurb]

The Daily app looks real nice. 99 cents per week is a great deal. Even though I have a few free news app that suit my needs just fine, I just may buy The Daily.

 

[deadkennedy]

Thank you Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos to let media companies sell their web content to us, something we enjoyed for free till now thanks to Tim Berners Lee. You are on the right path to undone everything that's been positive in the WWW.

 

[mambodancer]

Too bad I can't watch the coverage live from my iPad, since it is a FLASH video. The irony.

Must be something wrong with your iPad since I'm at the coffee shop watching the event over wifi from my iPad.

 

[deadkennedy]

Looks nice, but 256 MB RAM is not enough for this.

It must have been done in Flash. Crappy platform, crappy devs, what else can you expect.

 

[Patrick J]

1st 2 weeks are free, courtesy of Verizon.

 

[GeekLawyer]

1st 2 weeks are free, courtesy of Verizon.

Well, that seals it. I'll try it for two weeks.

 

[BJMRamage]

Thank you Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos to let media companies sell their web content to us, something we enjoyed for free till now thanks to Tim Berners Lee. You are on the right path to undone everything that's been positive in the WWW.

Do you buy newspapers or magazines? all the content in them can be found FREE scattered around the internet too. let's end all magazines and newspapers.!!!

 

[Patrick J]

Well, that seals it. I'll try it for two weeks.

Me too. I'm definitely excited about this - as someone said, trawling through RSS is quite a time consumer.

 

[Gen]

I wonder how stable the app is? They already managed to crash it once.

No they switched displays - instead of the camera they used the video-out

 

[ChazUK]

1st 2 weeks are free, courtesy of Verizon.

That's a sweet offer. Good move.

 

[QuarterSwede]

Thank you Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos to let media companies sell their web content to us, something we enjoyed for free till now thanks to Tim Berners Lee. You are on the right path to undone everything that's been positive in the WWW.

Are you kidding? Rupert Murdoch has been pushing for paid news content for years.

 

[Winni]

I guess nobody here subscribes to any magazines? You can get basically the same info scattered all over the net too...for free.
I see this as a good thing for Apple's iPad. This type of thing will help bring forth more publications offered for Tablet device(s). If built/designed well and with easy to read/scan info and charts/links/video/etc this will be a good move and see how far people are willing to go with news.

It's too late. Why should anybody want to pay for something that you can get for free all over the web? The ship with pay-for news content sailed ten years ago. The Internet has effectively killed the content industries, they just have not caught up with the fact yet. Ads are their only chance for income now.

 

[Patrick J]

No they switched displays - instead of the camera they used the video-out

I thought that too, when they were opening the 360º view.

That's a sweet offer. Good move.

Year price for 39.99 ($?). Sounds very good.

 

[Cynicalone]

New TOS when you try to buy anything on iTunes.