UPDATE: For some thoughts on how both papers are taking steps backwards in openness and usability, see this post.
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01:55 PM - April 5, 2010
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Thinking old newspaper, fixed format, turn paper etc. feels so wrong in the digital age. What is the cost to develop specific apps for each platform that become popular?
Advantages of a standard web page:
* Works on all platforms in general
* Flexible syntax and coding to add anything dynamic you want in a page
* Share links to content, viral stuff, google pagerank building so you can get visitors for a long time
Maybe the big companies can try this for a while, but it sounds so yesterday..
#1 Posted by Tomas, CJR on Tue 6 Apr 2010 at 08:30 AM
Now if the above newspapers change their fearfulness to forthrightness, maybe they will be read again by more than their blogger excoriation(ers).
dci
#2 Posted by Donald Isenman, CJR on Tue 6 Apr 2010 at 09:35 PM
The WSJ for iPad is terrific. Before, I was reading the WSJ on my Kindle along with the NYT. It was all about saving paper. It was a chore. I have found that I can get through the new iPad WSJ faster than I could read the print version. It's so convenient to be able to save and email articles. I would like Twitter interactivity.
Contrary to Mr. Chittum's opinion, I like the story list on the right. I think it is highly effective navigation. I read in landscape mode. Perhaps given the extra width, it doesn't feel like the list crowds the story.
My hope is for more magazines to develop their iPad apps. I agree that it's early. I can't imagine how good things will be one year from now.
#3 Posted by Bill Ryan, CJR on Mon 17 May 2010 at 05:06 PM
Bill, good point about landscape mode and the WSJ's story list. I still dislike it, though. I'd rather have that space for story text or graphics or whatever.
I don't think you should have to swipe through 3 or 4 jumps for a routine news story and several more for a longer one.
If that sidebar were something like an Ajax thing you could pull up when you want to or like the Mac OS X dock, that would be great.
Again, it's early days still.
#4 Posted by Ryan Chittum, CJR on Mon 17 May 2010 at 05:20 PM
I would like the NY Times app to be fully completed and if they would like to charge so be it. But lets have the option to have a FULL NEWSPAPER!!! That is what an iPad is made for. Kindle has it, why is NY Times taking so long to do this.
#5 Posted by Ed Perez, CJR on Tue 31 Aug 2010 at 03:48 PM