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'The Daily' Available in App Store, In-App Subscriptions Now Supported

LostTitan said:
Neutral? I want what you're smoking.
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No kidding... NPR is far from neutral.

I haven't had a lot of time to dig into the app, but had troubles with one section... sports. News stories appear to work just fine, but the "Follow Your Teams" feature is buggy. I have yet to find a way to select what team to follow, and it doesn't display anything in the default delivery configuration. Has anyone had any luck configuring this feature?
 
I highly encourage people to give this offering a thorough look before judging this. I am left leaning to be sure, and I am surprised by a couple of editorial/ opinion pieces being "left-leaning", including how military build up didn't really cause a win in the cold war, and how a 300% tax on medical marijuana would hurt people that truly need it with terminal illnesses such as AIDS. Certainly not a take you would hear on FOX. Sadly, I feel a great percentage of the "negatives" here are formed without a true review of the content.

I think they know their audience is a young, tech savvy crowd, and correspondingly, centered if not more liberal. Certainly not the same crowd that watches FOX that they are trying to capture. And any good business will know it's audience- or lose it.
 
Did anyone watch the keynote video? The app looked really clunky. Swiping pages often displayed a lag. The "cover flow" section looked pretty buggy. More than a few time, the "driver" pressed a link, and then pressed it again because it didn't seem to respond. The app appeared to crash once, dumping out onto the home screen. It made me think of Ballmer with his HP tablet last year.
 
Neat concept, but I'm betting it fails based on content.

Free national and international news is out there all over the place. Honestly, it's kind of an insult to call this a newspaper because it's so not. It's a magazine. I work for a newspaper, and we wouldn't waste the front page with one photo.

Content will also be "updated, though not as often as a website." So you're asking people to pay more for the same information updated less often? I just don't get this.

Now the framework seems very usable. But to replace newspapers, LOCAL CONTENT will be needed. This seems to be quite the opposite and will die fast and heavy unless changes are made.

Then you get into whether what Rupert Murdoch's companies mine is really news. Forget about Fox News for a moment. Do you think "high-quality journalism" when you think about the New York Post or any of his overseas daily newspapers? Um, no. Unless he changes that model in NewsCorp., you can forget about it even more.
 
jayducharme said:
Did anyone watch the keynote video? The app looked really clunky. Swiping pages often displayed a lag. The "cover flow" section looked pretty buggy. More than a few time, the "driver" pressed a link, and then pressed it again because it didn't seem to respond. The app appeared to crash once, dumping out onto the home screen. It made me think of Ballmer with his HP tablet last year.
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It is kind of clunky, with that said it is version 1.0.

I'd bet given the close and substantial relationship between Steve Jobs/Apple and Rupert Murdock/News Corp, that they have some iPad 2's they are developing for as well. Seems logical that they developed this with the power of the iPad 2 in mind.
 
Michael CM1 said:
Neat concept, but I'm betting it fails based on content.

Free national and international news is out there all over the place. Honestly, it's kind of an insult to call this a newspaper because it's so not. It's a magazine. I work for a newspaper, and we wouldn't waste the front page with one photo.

Content will also be "updated, though not as often as a website." So you're asking people to pay more for the same information updated less often? I just don't get this.

Now the framework seems very usable. But to replace newspapers, LOCAL CONTENT will be needed. This seems to be quite the opposite and will die fast and heavy unless changes are made.

Then you get into whether what Rupert Murdoch's companies mine is really news. Forget about Fox News for a moment. Do you think "high-quality journalism" when you think about the New York Post or any of his overseas daily newspapers? Um, no. Unless he changes that model in NewsCorp., you can forget about it even more.
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You work for a newspaper that actually prints the paper that the neighbors kid throws on the door step?? You might want to start looking for a new job!! :eek:
 
I've heard a lot about the app itself but what I want to know is more about the content. Is it a right wing slant on everything as usual? Is the tone sensationalist, or is it calm and logical? I think the content is going to be a potential problem for a lot of people, given Murdoch's reputation. I'd rather read the Economist than any of Murdoch's newspapers. Yeah the Economist app is pretty bland looking compared to this but the content is top-notch and that's what is important.
 
Questions...

I've been gleaming as much info on this app as possible, but I have a question:

Does it actually require an Internet connection to view content? I'd like to take it on the train, but my iPad is wifi only...
 
whokilledkaji said:
I've been gleaming as much info on this app as possible, but I have a question:

Does it actually require an Internet connection to view content? I'd like to take it on the train, but my iPad is wifi only...
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You cannot watch videos offline or listen to audio, but everything else seems to be there.
 
No WAY!

Why would I support something made by the person responsible for Fox News? Not a chance. I'll wait until something with real news emerges, that's not one sided and that has an agenda. :mad:
 
dopipod said:
Uk please, waiting
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You're not missing much; somewhat disappointed, had the feel of one of those in-flight magazines, very few pages and THAT carrousel! ....how they can let that clunky embarrassment out into public view is beyond me! I switched over to the Guardian, much better experience.
 
I was a bit disappointed with the content so far. But it is promising. The news section seems particularly light. It is closer to a People magazine in my opinion. The news articles are too short. The fluff is graphically nice but very, very fluffy. Not even compelling enough to mention at the "water cooler". The Opinion section seems almost empty.

On the other hand, the actual user interface is about what I expected. It certainly can be tweaked and improved. But the content is sorely lacking. No, it is not skewed politically. If anything, it is like a bald androgen. Perhaps appealing to only the shallowest of people. Very boring content. I'd give it a C+.

But the concept is a winner. Assuming somebody can get this done with smartly written content about the news, I can see myself actually subscribing for a similar fee. I'll give it a try for two weeks, and if the content improves, I could see myself subscribing.
 
It doesn't / hasn't crashed on me...but man is it slow slow slow laaa...agggy...stuttttttrs.

They really need to optimize this...and it makes me think they built it while testing in the next gen hardware.

Looks like the content is decent...though not anywhere near as deep as a newspaper...but I wouldn't pay for it until he super slow is fixed.
 
Hawkeye411 said:
You work for a newspaper that actually prints the paper that the neighbors kid throws on the door step?? You might want to start looking for a new job!! :eek:
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We have a lot of old readers. I just gotta make it 26 more years! :)

We're starting to do a lot more online stuff. I just made a video for the website earlier today, and we put a ton of photos on there. I was begging for a better website for a couple of years before it finally came. You can see almost everything on an iPad, so we're evolving.
 
MoreBS said:
I was a bit disappointed with the content so far. But it is promising. The news section seems particularly light. It is closer to a People magazine in my opinion. The news articles are too short. The fluff is graphically nice but very, very fluffy. Not even compelling enough to mention at the "water cooler". The Opinion section seems almost empty.

On the other hand, the actual user interface is about what I expected. It certainly can be tweaked and improved. But the content is sorely lacking. No, it is not skewed politically. If anything, it is like a bald androgen. Perhaps appealing to only the shallowest of people. Very boring content. I'd give it a C+.

But the concept is a winner. Assuming somebody can get this done with smartly written content about the news, I can see myself actually subscribing for a similar fee. I'll give it a try for two weeks, and if the content improves, I could see myself subscribing.
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This. I spent most of the day trying to download this app (I had been trying to avoid "upgrading" my iOS version, since an easy to access orientation lock slider is far more useful than a redundant mute switch--but was forced to get the new version just so I could download The Daily).

Having looked at the premiere edition, I feel as though I just read a summary of an issue of Newsweek (and no, that's not a compliment). This wasn't anything close to the quality or depth of reporting that I get from a NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, etc. Heck, it wasn't even as good as Murdoch's New York Post!

Great idea, looks spiffy, now if only it had some content worth reading. I find it odd that the sports section seemed to be half the total "page" count. I understand that the Super Bowl is coming up, but even so, there are a few other things going on in the world right about now....
 
Mod note: this post is in part a response to posts that are now deleted.

Please, stop.

We can argue about whose news is biased, and whose isn't. At the end of the day, most journalists are slanted one way or the other, and it reflects through the networks and newspapers.

The Daily, not Murdoch, seems pretty centered. Things may change, but for now, it's really just a fun news/entertainment/sports/everything app.
 
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fishmoose said:
Exactly! Why does American companies always think we Europeans do not understand English? Just give me the same content in English and let me worry about the linguistic problems.
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Why is it that the English always cry over everything? It's not like you don't have content in your iTunes stores that we can't access either!

There are always other issues involved when selling things internationally like laws, rules, regulations, taxes, fees, red tape and bureaucracy. They could very well have an agreement with a news company over seas that doesn't allow them to publish in the Motherland. Oh, and it is an American company! You're not Americans as you always state. Same goes for Canadians. If they think it's a market they can make money in, you'll get it. Every country gets to wait in line for something, even us!
 
Fails To Resume From Where You Were Reading When You Return

1. This failure to follow Apple iOS 4.2 guidelines and always PAUSE, FREEZE as you go to another app, then RESUME where you left it when you return from another app detour is insane and very poorly thought through design. Instead, The Daily resumes as if you have never been in it before. It doesn't even resume in the section you left it in. Crazy. :eek:

2. No feedback mechanism except primitive 3 line OR unlabeled 60 second audio "comments". No letters to the editor, publisher nor tech staff. No Contact Us link to long form messages. :(

3. No way to copy text, disallowing you to copy a name or place for paste in Wikipedia or Google to learn more about a person, place or thing. :mad:

In short, The Daily Blows. :rolleyes:
 
DVDxR said:
Hrm. Anyone else notice it's marked as a Game Center enabled app? Maybe for the crossword?
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Perhaps it's for a new Phone Hacking game they're going to add to the app?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World_phone_hacking_affair

The recurring subscriptions part of this news is great; the fact that it's run by the Murdochs means I can't wait for it to fail. This has nothing to do with politics, by the way, (the usual response here) it's to do with decent journalistic standards. Witness the hilarious unravelling mess with phone hacking over the past few years in the UK that has finally come out into the open over the past couple of weeks. Even old Rupert himself has had to spend time in Britain trying to sort it out.

Oh and what's this from yesterday's news?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-12350859
The Sun (Murdoch) accused of contempt of court during a murder trial. I can see no reason to pay Murdoch to have that sort of thing on my iPad.
 
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