Could be that you can sign up for it under 4.2 but can't actually retrieve like you will until 4.3
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Could be that you can sign up for it under 4.2 but can't actually retrieve like you will until 4.3
On several occasions I've started up the app, and had it crash multiple times before it showed me any content.
The presentation of the material is very attractive, and I think The Daily shows off the potential of the iPad as a news delivery device.
Unfortunately, the content is very limited. The articles are short, there are relatively few articles per day, and continent from previous days is unavailable. There's no coverage of science, medicine, politics, or business; and the coverage of technology is limited to games and apps.
On the plus side, the writing and imagery has been good.
Given the availability of so much free content, The Daily needs to do a lot better to make the paid model work.
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Man, what is with Apple this year??? It is like they are alseep. They haven't done anything and it is pushing March already! The Verizon iPhone, and The Daily ya, but those weren't even Apple events.
Where is our beginning of the year Apple event with stats fromt he holidays and new products???
Will I ever get my iPad 2?
I am worried that because of Lion that iOS 5 will not come until later this year like fall or end of year!
That might coincide with rumors of an iPad 3 for the fall even with the iPods and it would run iOS 5 while iPad 2 would be a point release that is not as substantial. But what about iPhone 5 this summer? I don't know but MAN the OS team is INUNDATED right now for sure!
I am excited for Lion and iOS 5. Here's hoping for iOS device to Mac integration with calls, texts, etc. and a new notification system!
Where is our beginning of the year Apple event with stats fromt he holidays and new products???
Will I ever get my iPad 2?I am worried that because of Lion that iOS 5 will not come until later this year like fall or end of year!
That might coincide with rumors of an iPad 3 for the fall even with the iPods and it would run iOS 5 while iPad 2 would be a point release that is not as substantial. But what about iPhone 5 this summer? I don't know but MAN the OS team is INUNDATED right now for sure!
I am excited for Lion and iOS 5. Here's hoping for iOS device to Mac integration with calls, texts, etc. and a new notification system!
Ahh. Thanks for the informative answer. I imagine it will be the presentation that will sell The Daily. Us Android folk don't have such pretty things
Long time lurker first time poster.
Long apple products
and long aapl stock
Quick question. Is anyone able to listen to music while using the daily?
I have the app (crashes constantly - didn't update yet) and when I start the app up it kills pandora or itunes b/c it plays that dumb chime during the beginning.
Listening to music while reading the morning news on the train is how I like to roll.
Long apple products
and long aapl stock
Quick question. Is anyone able to listen to music while using the daily?
I have the app (crashes constantly - didn't update yet) and when I start the app up it kills pandora or itunes b/c it plays that dumb chime during the beginning.
Listening to music while reading the morning news on the train is how I like to roll.
Wanted to love it....
The app is still pretty buggy, and the performance is awful. There is so much stuttering and lag, that it really detracts from the whole experience. The performance is so bad that it really makes me not want to check new stories.
I agree with a previous poster...most of the contents is meh, but I liked the potential. For me, until the app functions better, it is a horrible user experience.
The app is still pretty buggy, and the performance is awful. There is so much stuttering and lag, that it really detracts from the whole experience. The performance is so bad that it really makes me not want to check new stories.
I agree with a previous poster...most of the contents is meh, but I liked the potential. For me, until the app functions better, it is a horrible user experience.
My The Daily 1.0.2 Crashes On Launch Every Time
Isn't worth the price of FREE. I can't even read my free subscription as it crashes immediately after delivery or when I choose the first page to read. This would be paying for something that never works if I could subscribe.
Isn't worth the price of FREE. I can't even read my free subscription as it crashes immediately after delivery or when I choose the first page to read. This would be paying for something that never works if I could subscribe.
Because Apple high-level execs, including Steve himself, are of Jewish beliefs...hence Saturday they can't hold a conference.
Steve's Lineage
Steve is of Syrian---not Jewish---decent. He was raised by foster parents who were Protestant Christians. Today, his religious preference is Buddhism.
Of the Apple execs we know of from the keynotes, etc, only Phil Schiller is Jewish, to my knowledge.
Steve is of Syrian---not Jewish---decent. He was raised by foster parents who were Protestant Christians. Today, his religious preference is Buddhism.
Of the Apple execs we know of from the keynotes, etc, only Phil Schiller is Jewish, to my knowledge.
Steve isn't Jewish. Don't know about the rest of Apple's high level executives and I don't exactly know why you would.
I don't even know why I'm responding to this, lol...
I can't really see the Daily succeed TBH. A subscription based news will not work. Not when there's instant news feed from the likes of CNN.com, New York Times and more relevant as I'm in the UK, BBC.co.uk.
Why would anyone pay for something like news when you can get it free elsewhere is beyond me. Charging for news would be like your wife or girlfriend charging you a fee each time you want to sleep with her Well technically she's probably made you pay for her handbags, clothes, dinner etc...
Why would anyone pay for something like news when you can get it free elsewhere is beyond me. Charging for news would be like your wife or girlfriend charging you a fee each time you want to sleep with her
Well technically she's probably made you pay for her handbags, clothes, dinner etc...My guess would be Optical Disk Drive. Which, in an iPad, would be very... odd.
Sorry... I've been reading nothing but optical disk drive removal arguments in the Macbook Pro discussions. I think they're driving me crazy!
Truthfully, I think there's just as good a chance that they'll include a George Forman Grill inside the next iPad.
Presumably iOS 4.3 is delayed in order to fix that password retrieval hack that was released a few days ago with full documentation on how to reproduce it. There's no way Apple can release a new iOS now without that issue being addressed especially because it exposes Microsoft Exchange passwords as well and so affects no just the individual iPhone user but corporations as well.
I don't know where the hell you get this from or why you think it matters but sure, whatever.
Did Rupert Murdoch and other executives get up on stage and knowingly release an application that was so prone to crashing and poor performance, or are they surrounded by a bunch of yes men and women who don't understand that first impressions really do matter? What was the big rush to unveil The Daily before the bugs and performance kinks were ironed out? I hope News Corp. can measure the number of users that have abandoned or no longer download The Daily content each day. A few of my impressions of The Daily:
1) The "rotate-to-read" UI stinks. We don't do that when we read newspapers or magazines. This needs to go. All content should be visible regardless of iPad orientation.
2) Delete-to-upgrade? I hope Apple is paying attention and will do what is technically or otherwise necessary to stop this interesting approach to fixing apps that crash.
3) Provide a setting to allow users to choose Imperial or Metric units for Weather temperature, etc.
4) Allow access to back issues.
5) The content is crap. This is my major concern and it is why I would never consider subscribing to The Daily.
I guess The Daily is intended to be a highly watered down digital "newspaper" with content that doesn't compete with or cannibalize other News Corp. publications? Perhaps more people would be interested if it did? The quality and content of The Daily reminds me of the free paper given away at the train station each morning to pass the commute away, and not something I would go out of my way to read.
Unfortunately for The Daily, my iPad has 3G and Safari. There are many sources for quality news content on the Web. The Daily has been deleted from my iPad.
-ITG
1) The "rotate-to-read" UI stinks. We don't do that when we read newspapers or magazines. This needs to go. All content should be visible regardless of iPad orientation.
2) Delete-to-upgrade? I hope Apple is paying attention and will do what is technically or otherwise necessary to stop this interesting approach to fixing apps that crash.
3) Provide a setting to allow users to choose Imperial or Metric units for Weather temperature, etc.
4) Allow access to back issues.
5) The content is crap. This is my major concern and it is why I would never consider subscribing to The Daily.
I guess The Daily is intended to be a highly watered down digital "newspaper" with content that doesn't compete with or cannibalize other News Corp. publications? Perhaps more people would be interested if it did? The quality and content of The Daily reminds me of the free paper given away at the train station each morning to pass the commute away, and not something I would go out of my way to read.
Unfortunately for The Daily, my iPad has 3G and Safari. There are many sources for quality news content on the Web. The Daily has been deleted from my iPad.
-ITG
Why is this so hard??
Here is what I don't understand- why is there all this crap with these "slick" UI things? I hate them! Just give me essentially a PDF copy of a monthly magazine, in digital form, reliably delivered every month at midnight before the newstand copy goes on sale and I will subscribe to magazines again! I don't need all this "rotate to show a 3d UI map of the magazine with a hologram laser powered BS table of contents" or whatever! just give me the same magazine experience as I get when I pick up a print mag, without the feeling of "what an ***** waste of paper and resources to print this!"
Damnit! Just give me the same publications, guilt free!
And I don't want some ***** web portal, I don't want to have to deal with a horrible 3rd party interface, and I really REALLY hate this crap where I open the app and it then begins downloading the content! Download it in the background so it is ready for me when I open up my iPad!
/end rant!
Here is what I don't understand- why is there all this crap with these "slick" UI things? I hate them! Just give me essentially a PDF copy of a monthly magazine, in digital form, reliably delivered every month at midnight before the newstand copy goes on sale and I will subscribe to magazines again! I don't need all this "rotate to show a 3d UI map of the magazine with a hologram laser powered BS table of contents" or whatever! just give me the same magazine experience as I get when I pick up a print mag, without the feeling of "what an ***** waste of paper and resources to print this!"
Damnit! Just give me the same publications, guilt free!
And I don't want some ***** web portal, I don't want to have to deal with a horrible 3rd party interface, and I really REALLY hate this crap where I open the app and it then begins downloading the content! Download it in the background so it is ready for me when I open up my iPad!
/end rant!
K.I.S.S. - please
I basically agree - but I assume that the PDF copy has hot links to more in depth explanations or related stories.
Not the full boring time-wasting multi-media video experience, but if a story on Egypt references the assasination of Anwar Sadat - a link to an overview story on the Sadat assasination would be useful. (I hate video stories - if a CNN link shows the camera icon I skip to the next text headline).
ps: I know that it's "KISS", but if you put "KISS" in a title it "corrects" the case to "Kiss" - which is nice for Valentine's day but confuses the message a little.
I basically agree - but I assume that the PDF copy has hot links to more in depth explanations or related stories.
Not the full boring time-wasting multi-media video experience, but if a story on Egypt references the assasination of Anwar Sadat - a link to an overview story on the Sadat assasination would be useful. (I hate video stories - if a CNN link shows the camera icon I skip to the next text headline).
ps: I know that it's "KISS", but if you put "KISS" in a title it "corrects" the case to "Kiss" - which is nice for Valentine's day but confuses the message a little.
I basically agree - but I assume that the PDF copy has hot links to more in depth explanations or related stories.
Not the full boring time-wasting multi-media video experience, but if a story on Egypt references the assasination of Anwar Sadat - a link to an overview story on the Sadat assasination would be useful. (I hate video stories - if a CNN link shows the camera icon I skip to the next text headline).
ps: I know that it's "KISS", but if you put "KISS" in a title it "corrects" the case to "Kiss" - which is nice for Valentine's day but confuses the message a little.
Yes! i agree completely- that is essentially the outer limits of what I would like to see in terms of extra features, and even if those were missing I would likely be alright with it. I just don't want to acquire any more newsprint-based publications, except for physical books.
This:
And this: http://www.macstories.net/news/how-to-create-manage-and-renew-itunes-app-subscriptions/
Indicate that in-app subscriptions are already available, at least to The Daily if not to other apps, so there is no link to the release of 4.3 - if the free subscription has been extended, it's probably because The Daily hasn't seen the number of downloads it would like so far.
And this: http://www.macstories.net/news/how-to-create-manage-and-renew-itunes-app-subscriptions/
Indicate that in-app subscriptions are already available, at least to The Daily if not to other apps, so there is no link to the release of 4.3 - if the free subscription has been extended, it's probably because The Daily hasn't seen the number of downloads it would like so far.
So now I will wait until the 27th to Delete it
Hate this app, mainly due to failure to be what I had hoped a iPad news app would be. For a start, I wanted it to be at least somewhat customizable. (So you pick your sports team, big deal . . . I don't even follow any of those sports anyway, and there are more than four sports in the world).
I think it is hilarious that in the Settings section you can choose about four things to "set" and one of which is your freaking horoscope! Twenty-five percent of the settings have to do with fortune telling?!
Articles are lame. I could live with it if some of the articles were superficial or overly contrived attempts at being interesting, but when they all are it's a bit much.
Seriously, if you want news get the free NYT or AP app. If you want this level news, get the free USA Today app. If you want a real magazine, get Zinio.
Hate this app, mainly due to failure to be what I had hoped a iPad news app would be. For a start, I wanted it to be at least somewhat customizable. (So you pick your sports team, big deal . . . I don't even follow any of those sports anyway, and there are more than four sports in the world).
I think it is hilarious that in the Settings section you can choose about four things to "set" and one of which is your freaking horoscope! Twenty-five percent of the settings have to do with fortune telling?!
Articles are lame. I could live with it if some of the articles were superficial or overly contrived attempts at being interesting, but when they all are it's a bit much.
Seriously, if you want news get the free NYT or AP app. If you want this level news, get the free USA Today app. If you want a real magazine, get Zinio.
Not impressed
I'm just not impressed by The Daily
First off - my version doesn't crash at all, so I'm happy on that front
That said - if you guys wanna read a REAL fun news journal, specifically made for the iPad, then read THE PROJECT --- developed by Richard Branson
The Project is much better designed, much more enhanced, and most importantly, full of better content
Lastly - my point above - I'm just not impressed by the content in The Daily - I'll continue spending $20 a month reading the Wall Street Journal on my iPad - a great app, that also includes EXCELLENT reporting and writing
I'm just not impressed by The Daily
First off - my version doesn't crash at all, so I'm happy on that front
That said - if you guys wanna read a REAL fun news journal, specifically made for the iPad, then read THE PROJECT --- developed by Richard Branson
The Project is much better designed, much more enhanced, and most importantly, full of better content
Lastly - my point above - I'm just not impressed by the content in The Daily - I'll continue spending $20 a month reading the Wall Street Journal on my iPad - a great app, that also includes EXCELLENT reporting and writing
The Daily is Over-Priced at Free
The app is WAY to slow. The lag is just unacceptable. Even with the updates (an going through what should be the unnecessary step of deleting the app before reinstalling) it still crashes.
Even without the lag, the navigation is awful. And for the size of the download where is all the content? Seems really sparse.
I am impressed with the people who have commented on the content of the stories. They have a much higher tolerance for a bad app then I do - I haven't been able to get through a single article.
Will be removing this as soon as the trial is over.
The Economist has really done a great job on porting a magazine to the platform.
Zino seems just way over priced and way too slow to be of much use.
The app is WAY to slow. The lag is just unacceptable. Even with the updates (an going through what should be the unnecessary step of deleting the app before reinstalling) it still crashes.
Even without the lag, the navigation is awful. And for the size of the download where is all the content? Seems really sparse.
I am impressed with the people who have commented on the content of the stories. They have a much higher tolerance for a bad app then I do - I haven't been able to get through a single article.
Will be removing this as soon as the trial is over.
The Economist has really done a great job on porting a magazine to the platform.
Zino seems just way over priced and way too slow to be of much use.