Today Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation, unveiled The Daily — the industry’s first national daily news publication created from the ground up for iPad.
“New times demand new journalism,” said Mr. Murdoch. “So we built The Daily completely from scratch — on the most innovative device to come about in my time — the iPad.”
“The magic of great newspapers — and great blogs — lies in their serendipity and surprise, and the touch of a good editor,” continued Mr. Murdoch. “We’re going to bring that magic to The Daily — to inform people, to make them think, to help them engage in the great issues of the day. And as we continue to improve and evolve, we are going to use the best in new technology to push the boundaries of reporting.”
The Daily’s unique mix of text, photography, audio, video, information graphics, touch interactivity and real-time data and social feeds provides its editors with the ability to decide not only which stories are most important — but also the best format to deliver these stories to their readers.
“News Corp. is redefining the news experience with The Daily,” says Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “We think it is terrific and iPad users are really going to embrace it.”
Led by Editor-in-Chief Jesse Angelo and Publisher Greg Clayman, The Daily is the first application made available on the App Store as a subscription — which will be billed directly to an iTunes account. And because this paperless paper requires no multi-million dollar presses or delivery trucks, it will be priced at just 99 cents a week (or $39.99 for an annual subscription). The first two weeks are free, brought to you by Verizon Wireless.
“The Daily launches at a moment when advances in technology are changing the job of the modern editor,” says Mr. Angelo. “These advances are giving us new ways to tell stories. We intend to take advantage of all of them, and make The Daily the new voice for a new era.”
Each day The Daily will publish up to 100 pages focused on six key areas: news, sports, gossip and celebrity, opinion, arts and life, and apps and games. It will offer views from across the political spectrum. They will come from across cultures and generations, across America and the world.
The Daily will feature Sudoku and crossword puzzles, localized weather reports, and a customizable sports package that captures news on the user’s favorite teams. Subscribers will also be able to leave comments on Daily stories in either written or audio form — as well as bookmark them in-app to read later.
As readers move through The Daily‘s content, they will be helped by several highly intuitive navigation tools. And while The Daily lives on the iPad, most of its articles can be easily shared via Facebook, Twitter and email. The Daily will link out to the web, as well as bring the web into the app.
“In short, says Mr. Murdoch, “we believe The Daily will be the model for how stories are told and consumed in this digital age.”
The Daily has bureaus in New York and Los Angeles, as well as stringers across the country. Full company bios are available at TheDaily.com/about. Executive staff includes:
John Kilpatrick – Executive Creative Director
Steve Alperin – Managing Editor
Mike Nizza – Managing Editor, News
Richard Johnson – LA Bureau Chief
Sasha Frere-Jones – Editor, Arts & Life
Chris D’Amico – Editor, Sports
Elisabeth Eaves – Editor, Opinion
Peter Ha – Editor, Apps, Games and Technology
The Daily is also changing the way advertising is offered and consumed within a news publication. Full-page ad units are completely interactive, customizable, and offer a rich mix of branding and direct response opportunities. Launch advertisers include HBO, Macy’s, Paramount, Pepsi Max, Range Rover, Verizon, and Virgin Atlantic Airways.
“With The Daily, Rupert Murdoch has given us the chance to rethink the entire experience of news delivery and consumption,” said Mr. Clayman. “The ability to actively listen to and engage with our audience means we can continually provide an experience that consumers value in this fast-evolving tablet space. Together with our customers, our advertising partners, and the team at The Daily, we are excited to create a new form of media.”
The Daily is a first-of-its-kind daily national news publication built exclusively as an application for tablet computing. It provides readers the engaging experience of a magazine combined with the immediacy of the web and the need-to-know content of a newspaper, all while elevating user experience beyond the printed word. The Daily is a subscription-based news product, published 365 days a year, at the cost of $0.99 cents a week or $39.99 a year.
More info and download link (free app, subscription-based content) here.
pretty slick!
make sure to watch the tutorial..
Somebody had to be the first.
I think it is safe to say that among the educated public, Rupert Murdock and his media empire has very few fans. I’m pretty sure, Jobs himself isn’t exactly an avid reader of Murdock’s daily newspapers, or watcher of his TV news outlets. However, Murdock was the first to share Jobs’s vision and go out on a limb.
Now that this is in place, there is little doubt that it will be a success, if for no other reason than because Apple has something to do with it (anything Apple touches lately turns to gold). That should cue other major media outlets to mobilize their creative talent (or hire some, if none is available in-house).
I have become increasingly weary of getting news through blogosphere. Some online-only outlets are essentially one-man shops, and there is no chance a single person can do a proper journalistic research. I often read articles in the New Yorker. These people spend months researching their subject, then their submissions goes to a fact checker, who painstakingly uses every resource available to make sure nothing is factually incorrect. Only real media organisations can actually do this. It never hurts to diversify your new sources (Neither Fox nor MSNBC should be your trusted source), but still, the only real, proper journalism is still done in traditional print organisations (those whose deadlines aren’t 15 minutes away, no matter when the story breaks).
only available in U.S. app store !
“..among the educated public”. WTF? What pompous POS you must be. Go back to your elitist cave.
“Q: When will it be on other tablets?
A: As other tablets get established, we will develop the technology to appear on them. But last year, this year and perhaps next year belong to Apple, says Murdoch.”
It seems they only sell iPads in the USA…
Too bad you can’t line the bottom of a bird cage with it, like you can with other Murdoch owned publications.
if this is a success, what does it mean for the USA today?
Yeah…I’d probably subscribe without even checking it out first if it was any publication other than Murdoch’s.
@qka, and if your mum had taught you how to wipe your own arse, you might choose use it for that, too.
Kudo’s to Murdock for showing what’s possible but… It’s a sorry state of affairs when such blatant ideologues (of any stripe) have so much control of the media. Without truly balanced reporting, people have little chance of making properly informed choices.
How many among us will make the effort to look at offerings from both sides of the polarized media, double-check their ‘facts’ and assertions, and then decide?
I’m surprised that a version is not available for the iPhone. I know the screen is small but the content can be managed fir both systems and widen the audience
Seriously, you are a perfect example of why, in direct contradiction to your assessment, Fox news ventures are so incredibly popular. People are tired of condescending, elitists liberals telling them what to think and telling them what “news” is. Look at the real stats and you’ll find that Fox consumers are in fact highly educated just not indoctrinated to the liberal agenda.
And guess what, Fox is by far the highest rated news organization. I’m guessing that you already know this which means that you believe that you are infinitely “smarter” than everybody else. Thanks for your attempt to enlighten us.
@ mnn
Relax, educated just means knowing who Rupert Murdoch is and what he stands for.
@ @predrag
Relax, educated just means knowing who Rupert Murdoch is and what he stands for.
yes, Murdoch/Fox is an evil pig. but there are three really important things about the Daily app that will spread far and wide through the media industry are:
– a design format more user friendly and flexible than standard web pages – which are all still based on a point-and-click UI.
– an extremely simple mobile device subscription system (which no doubt Android will copy).
– most of all, the price is finally right.
at $1 per week, i’ll try it once just to see how it works. for a dollar, i’ll give any site a chance for a week to see if i like it, whereas now i won’t because they want $10 or $20 a month. ultimately, i’ll spend more on the ones i find i like.
The price is right! The content (Fox News) is NOT!
Darn. If anyone but Murdoch was doing this, I’d be interested. As it stands, I don’t need any more propaganda in my day…..
“The Daily is the first application made available on the App Store as a subscription”
Was it not the British weekly paper “The Economist” the first?
(I can subscribe or buy single issues of ‘The Economist’)
Or is it that ‘The Economist’ is not an app?
downloaded, had a look, deleted.
Murdoch and his ilk should quietly fade away.
New Media? Just more crap.
Well, the layout isn’t bad, but the behavior gets a little confusing when you turn it sideways to get the photos, rather than a 2 page spread like you’d think. And it’s pretty slow and clunky for being so ‘terrific’. The photography is good. But I’ve already managed to crash it twice.
Hm.
Just so you know folks, you don’t have to buy a week to try it out. You get two weeks for free.
Thanks to our good friends at Verizon.
Murdoch … Best Lib bitchslapper out there! I’m all in!
Why? The controls are very intuitive.
Read it before making opinions. It’s free for the first two weeks and then you can at least say something about it.
if Jobs and Murdoch can be on the same page about this then maybe the partisans here should shut the hell up and be happy about these meaningful advances in news delivery.
stop being so predictably simplistic in your opinions.
“I think it is safe to say that among the educated public, Rupert Murdock and his media empire has very few fans.”
Predrag, your arrogance is showing.
I tried it. To cluttered to be useful. Too much information presented that I am not interested in. Worried about bias, so I deleted it.
The UI, performance and functionality are not ready for prime time. They should’ve AT LEAST waited to get that carousel navigation to look good and function well. Disappointed, but I’m sure it’ll improve.
I checked it out. It’s alright. I still like Flipboard best.
as opposed to The New York Slime which has”all the news we decide to make up and print”? Even my bird refused to poop on that and demanded better quality cage liners. Between this and instapundit.com I can be pretty much assured of getting actual *news* every day instead of Soros drool.
This thing is fuckin awesome!! It instantly makes those other news apps look like relics, like they were designed for some old iPad that came out in 2008, lol.
Can’t wait for the iPad 2 to come out so I can try it and the Daily too.
Why just US store?
Downloaded, awesome, subscribed.
This app is only available from the US store! Apple is a bit like Amazon in this regard with its stricter music downloads. There is a world outside the US!
If it was just news, it would fine. But mostly it is a trashy gossip rag, filled with dudes and bimbos. it celebrates the trivial, so no thanks.
Hey, what about the funnies? And how can I use my Silly Putty on an iPad. Phooey on modern technology!
I like this a lot. Both companies working together to start a new revolution. Letting Apple lead the way and embracing Apple technology.
Wow, libtarbs out in force.
Since there is a two week free trial, I grabbed it at lunch and tried it out.
I like it. I also have USA today, while nice it just reminds me of an app that shows a webpage designed for mobile devices. The daily is from the ground up iPad.
And yes, I love the “the next few years belong to apple” comment lol
Will I sub? Dunno, but the next two weeks it will get a lot of use.
@backlash,
You know, I could call you a conservadork, but then I’d be sinking to your level. Using the “liberal elite” label just proves that conservatives are not capable of thinking for themselves.
But since you want to go there: Faux News fans are like cockroaches; there are a lot of them, but that doesn’t make them higher forms of life. Think about that the next time you profess your love for Murdock’s spawn.
The only things it will lack:
1- Journalistic integrity
2- Fact checking
3- ‘Truthiness’
4- Balance
If it’s from NewzCrap, I won’t be buying…
Still looking for the story on how Murdoch got expedited US citizenship in order to buy the former Metromedia TV stations. Something about a ‘generous’ book deal with then House Speaker Newt Gingrich…
Oh yeah! Might have known.
All these pathetic, immature, shallow liberal/progressives, perpetually dizzy due to the constant exposure to liberal spin, whirling, random, insignificant dust storms littering the blogosphere with their hateful, envious rants. Unfortunately, there is no cure for rectal cranial inversion.
Based on all the errational political comments I can say that The Daily will be a hit.
Geeone
Sinking to my level?
Yes, cause all the knee-jerk bashing of Murdoch, is nothing but high and mighty above the fray tolerance. As shown by the left every day.
If this was 100% steve jobs in house work, but some obscure law in cupertino says apple can’t have a news division… And Murdoch was just asked by jobs to put his name behind it instead. You’d still bash Murdoch.
Who teaches you to be like this? It’s awful and you sound crazy… “Libtard”, “Conservadork” grow up and see beyond your childish stereotypical viewpoint.
You people are sick!!!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to vote your sorry asses out and replace with conservatives everywhere. Good for Murdoch for rolling this out. I may try it. Thank goodness for Fox, Drudge, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, etc. You liberal lying scum need to be opposed every step of the way. The Maobamacare healthcaredestruction is on its way to being thrown out. Completely unconstitutional and unAmerican. We are on to you commies. You have a slow, methodical plan to destroy the USA. We know what you’re doing. The Muslim Brotherhood has the same goals for the US and Europe. Now there are headlines that Al Qaeda probably has nukes. Scary times made worse by you liberals.
Oh BOY “…sports, gossip and celebrity, opinion, … and apps and games.”
That’s what I need more of ! ! I need more unexpert opinion regarding celebrity sports gossip ! GIMME and lemme PAY
Not to mention all of the states that are going to require full original birth certificates for all Presidential candidates to be on their ballots for the next election. Maobama will be ineligible in many states. This is going to be interesting. Can’t wait until it’s finally proven he was never eligible to be President and we can void all of the damage he has done.
Great going Rupert on The Daily. I’m signing up.
It’s a (mostly) free country. Anyone (right, left, or educated) can make their own news app. Either buy the ones that continue to tell you what you think you already know or want to hear, or buy the ones that will challenge your understanding of the world and try to think different, or try to find one that doesn’t have any agenda whatsoever (good luck with that).
But if this model takes off, you’ll owe a debt of gratitude to Murdock et al for showing the industry what’s possible in electronic news media consumption. And if you don’t like his background or influence, go out and financially support someone else more in-line with what you want to see, before they become also-rans lost in the mix.
Seems safe to bet that based on recent application successes like Pixelmator, Angry Birds, etc., that with this kind of press, the Daily will get off to a very brisk start, and even drive some new iPad sales.
@ @all the commies
Thanks, didn’t know I was a commie till you told me I was. The irony is you all think the Liberals are going to destroy the US – but you already did it, it’s already ruined.
Sad. Pathetic.
@Grrrilla
This is the correct answer.
Notice this whole thing started with the “tolerant” left bashing Murdoch, not anyone bashing those on the left.
Everyone forgets Murdock supported Hillary…
I like it. it did quit once whilst downloading the issue, but it looks good.
And, for you a-holes that just can’t stand to pull your heads out of your asses, the content seemed pretty bias-free and well laid out.
Some nice pix, and it’s one of the best “periodical” formats I’ve seen.
I hope it does not prove to be a one-sided source. But as of now, it’s pretty cool, and not filled with *UPDATEs and other web-like clutter that make a newspaper simpler to absorb.
Give it a shot instead of being politically retarded folks. Otherwise, why not just keep quiet?
I’m left. I’m not tolerant. Why should I be tolerant of you dumb rednecks? I take any opportunity I’m given to berate your ilk. And I will continue to do so as long as you make it so easy by supporting people like Sarah Palin. LOL
The technology is great, and I can’t wait until there are more credible news organizations deploying it. In the meantime, I’ll wait on the sidelines. NewsCorp is not going to get a dime from me!
Hillary Clinton is not “left”
Try getting some facts for a change, instead of infotainment.
http://www.zcommunications.org/how-to-create-15-million-jobs-by-jack-rasmus
quick hint: make corporations actually pay their taxes. Or don’t and watch the USA quickly slide into decay.
@ Dudley,
I have to LMAO at you – “rednecks”? With a name like Dudley, you likely married your sister!
IWOOT… But it’s only on the US store. Grrr…
It’s a national us news app….
It was never mentioned to be anywhere outside the us.
Not saying that it will only be a us based news app…
And Hillary not liberal/left? Lmao Dudley.
This thing reeks of Fox, Jack Russell’s kill Fox’s, go Jack Russell’s.
I’m no fan of Murdoch, but tell you what, if this venture takes off, you just have to admire the man for getting ahead of others and staking ownership of the iPad news space.
Why only available in the us?
Dudley and friends,
You liberal freaks are in deep trouble. Maobama tells the Egyptians to calm down and the opposite happens. Maobamacare will be repealed. EPA being cut down to size. Conservatives have done nothing to destroy the US of A. It’s all libtards and Union Thugs. We will vote you scum out of every hole you’ve wormed yourselves into.
Great going Newscorp. Love this on my iPad
Why is Nobama hiring thousands of IRS agents under his NobamaScare system instead of more doctors?????????? Answer that one commies.
Great going Steve Jobs and Rupert! Love The Daily!
@Hank The Tank…you might wanna be up on current events before you state that health care will be repealed. The Senate voted that down today.
@petey
I bet the overall plan is to be a worldwide news app.
But the “don’t bite off more than you can chew” comes to mind.
First the us market, maybe uk next (or all of Europe)
They just decided it would be better to start with something smaller than spend a ton of money to get the localized news setup in every country, and the venture fails…. Shareholders would be out for blood, which may have been why it’s USA only. The board or shareholders may have said start small or don’t bother.
@youcantfixstupid
Yet a judge already ruled it unconstitutional, which means the vote means nothing. It was already known it wouldn’t pass, it was meant to be voted on to make the dems be on record with that vote. Remember, 23 dems up for reelection in 2012, and like 8-9 republicans. No doubt this will be voted on again, just to make the dems be on record again..
It’s called politics 101.
YouAreStupid,
Yes the Commies in the Senate did and are now on record again for voting for the horrific monstrosity. Bye bye in 2012 and 2014 to those libtards and hello conservatives. The Supreme Court will make the ultimate decision in the mean time. What are you commies going to do when they declare it the unconstitutional money and power grab that it is? Why don’t you liberals actually get a job and fend for yourselves instead of trying to constantly steal every productive members of society’s money and rights?? Aholes.
I will be following along on my iPad and The Daily.
I predict that this, too, shall fail. The magazine and newspaper are simply an old paradigm. Who wants to turn pages unless they’re reading a digital book? This is simply putting lights and chrome on the buggy. It’s still a conveyance pulled by a horse. The new paradigm has been established by NPR, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Facebook, and conventional news web sites like BBC and the Guardian.
We want fast, scan and touch, instant, constantly updating news without having to pay or plow through the filler and fluff. We are the editors.
Liberals suck! The Daily will route more of them out into the open by exposing their BS. Can’t wait!
Keep that crap in the US.. where it was spun..
Ok, so, in spite of being Rupert’s new rag, I downloaded it and read it before posting. After all, it’s free for 2 weeks.
1. It wanted my location and info. At least I could say, “No.”
2. The News section contained one story. It was about events in Egypt and was fairly well done. The rest of the News section was fluff: A club/pub in NY that caters to dog owners is news?
3. The Opinion section had two items. A piece on Bollywood going after Muslim audiences with better success than Hollywood with opinion on why that’s a good thing. And a very short editorial about The Daily’s stated ‘philosophy’ is obviously “Fox Lite” by the choice of hot-words: supporting “personal freedom”, “sensible immigration reform”, and “smart environmental laws” without any definition of what those qualifiers mean.
4. The Sports and Gossip sections both had quite a bit more development than the News. It felt like a cross between People and USA Today.
5. The advertising was more advanced technologically than the stories. That was a surprise.
6. The app crashed twice. If feels like the end of a beta rather than a first release.
I’m willing to give it another shot next week. But so far, the production value — an especially the content — is nowhere near the Economist. Unless it really picks up, it goes to the great bit bucket in the sky. Quickly.
5. The interface was underwhelming. It’s not much better than
@Backlash…why did you feel the need to wrap up a fine argument with a comment that proves you’re nothing more than an asshole?
@Jane…Commies? Libtards? LOL…why is it that those on the right can do no better than name calling? Oh, I know. It’s because you don’t have the intellectual capacity to actually have a reasonable, respectful debate.
The right has DESTROYED this country. You spread hate around like it’s the last lighter in a crack house. So what if a gay person wants to get married? Why is it ANY of your business? You want the government out of our lives EXCEPT when it comes to controlling people who don’t live theirs according to your messed up, religion-backed construct of right and wrong.
Then again, I have to give you credit. In the wake of 9/11, I certainly don’t think a Democratic executive could have garnered nearly the level of hate of America that you assholes managed to wring out of the world.
Hold on, let me write that down. Lol
I have to remember that saying “it’s called politics 101” proves I’m an asshole.
And I think we already pointed out it it was the leftists in here that started all the name calling of Murdoch.
The rest of your crap isn’t worth responding to. You obviously are an athiest and have no clue that the vast majority of the worlds governments were based in some form of religion. Marriage is a religious thing, not a government thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage
I’m honestly trying to like it. But so far I just don’t. Some hideous interface tenancies need to be fixed quick.
It’s totally idiotic, for instance, that when you save a page, and then you go back and click on that page, that you could not then move forward and backward in the adjacent pages. But you can’t, it’s just that one page with nothing to do but back out of this modal cul-de-sac. This might be a good way to mark your place, but as it is it’s useless.
Oh, is there an *actual* way to mark your place? Because everything resets when you quit to Home. Zinio brings you back to the same page you left off, and so should The Daily. The current behavior is unusable.
And if this is New Media, then I’m going to be looking for more technology and business and less bleeding football. It’s nice that they put it at the end, but just know that my enthusiasm suffers a brutal sack at the 30 yard line.
I usually feel smarter after I’ve read National Geographic.
The daily does not make me feel this way.
“Marriage is a religious thing, not a government thing.”
It doesn’t exist if the government doesn’t recognize it. Ask gay people.
I’m an atheist.
And this whole “Turn it sideways to see the pictures” thing… that has GOT to go. That prevents the user from going all the way through in landscape mode. Bad form.
Crissyone
Why do you think it needs to be recognized by the government?
Thats right….. BENEFITS.
But this has gone waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off topic.
Maybe since I pretty much do 99% of my iPad usage in landscape, I don’t notice the picture thing you are talking about.
Marking your place is probably either an update coming later with multitasking support. (my guess) or the app was always meant to start fresh when you start it.
I’ll agree the app is not perfect, but overall I do like it.
Compared to the USA today app, I like them both. But the USA today app like I said earlier, seems like a shell for the mobile version of their website. It works but it’s nothing really special.
Someone mentioned including local news, I like the idea!
But I don’t see it personally. It’s a national paper, doubt they will go local.
Ok…
Just figured out what you were talking about (turn it sideways to see the pictures)
Hmmm….
Jury is still out on that one ATM…
Dunno if I like it or not. It’s different that’s for sure. Maybe something that once you get used to it, you won’t notice it?
May have to agree with you on that. (off to go scour the settings for some thing to change)
@ C1
Definitely agree – the Daily’s interface is not well thought out. The app doesn’t live up to the hype that was generated for it. It still feel like a beta to me. And the content is pretty slim; usually, a premier issue has all that can be crammed into it, this one doesn’t.
@ Backlash – yup, waaaay off topic, but:
If marriage is “a religious thing, not a government thing”, why do people need a license from the state to get married and a decree from the civil courts to get unmarried? As for “church weddings”, the power of the clergy to perform a marriage was granted by the state, not the other way around.
This whole brouhaha over gay marriage is just a way to keep the sheeple’s focus away from the real problems in US society. By the way, Washington specifically warned against the dangers of hyperpartisan politics in his extremely erudite and prescient farewell address — too bad those who vaunt the founding fathers’ omniscience don’t read it.
You missed the benefit part…
You don’t register with the state, you don’t get your tax benefits, your health benefits…. You get the picture.
Marriage isn’t something the governments came up with, the benefits granted by the states were. That’s where gay marriage argument comes in, they don’t get the same benefits…. It’s all about benefits and handouts now.
The whole give a man a fish/teach a man to fish argument.
“This whole brouhaha over gay marriage is just a way to keep the sheeple’s focus away from the real problems in US society.”
Could the real problem be the devaluation of the family, including the need for two incomes to support one, leaving the kids without their mother the crucial first 5 years of their lives, the rampant teen pregnancies, the lack of responsible young males afterwards, the cycle repeating after the STATE takes care of said children?
Sorry, but I don’t have an iPad….
@ Backlash
And why did the state grant married couples those benefits?
Because the government wanted you to have more babies. Which I’d argue is exactly what this world doesn’t need so bad. Because of your federally subsidized lifestyle, world population is spiraling out of control.
We need our gays now more than ever.
“We need our gays now more than ever.”
But you need our babies to support your Social Security…
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They need to be replaced with robots.
Kids replaced with robots?
If they can be programed, I’m for that.
Crissyone
I’ve noticed the turn for pictures thing is only one parts of the daily app.
I kinda like it… But it does kinda annoy me at the same time.
Just finished going through the entire daily postings for today, kind of reminds me of a daily news magazine. I hit the email button to see if I could email a picture in one of the stories, I didn’t see the comments section before… With audio comments… That’s neat. Although half of them are “does this work?” and “my iPad can record?” lol
The most comments I seen were for the little girl in the snow story. Million comments “aww, cute”
All the libtard freaks showed up here tonight. Replace kids with robots???? What mental institution did you escape from. Obviously the same place the rest of lunatic lefties posting here come from. If you aren’t a self absorbed ahole you would understand how spectacular kids are. Pretty sick and telling about the left to say something like that. Hopefully you were kidding.
You Marxist idiots are becoming more and more irrelevant by the second. The US public won’t be fooled into voting for you mental cases for a long, long time. You’ll always have the sheeple but you lost the slightly left of center and on over to the independents.
I love my iPad but it’s hard to tell if anyone will pay for news when they don’t really have on the internet. It will obviously have to be so good that you’d want to pay for it. Time will tell.
I’m not too impressed.
@ Kenny
You only think kids are great because of your Cognative Dissonance. To wit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wray-herbert/joyful-parenthood-myth-cognitive-dissonance_b_816453.html
See? Anyway, I think we should get about the business of replacing your great kids with robots, who will never need any government assistance and won’t ever ask for a commie handout. They can be programmed to work for less than the minimum wage and will never need abortions.
It’s really the only way.
Wow, Liberals are completely out of their mind. It’s spectacular that the ObamaScare bill has been thrown out by a Federal Judge. If and until this is appealed it is void. Done. Thrown out. Finito!
I need an iPad app for that!
And back to the Daily… Did you catch the TV intro with (former porn star) Erin Aide? (sp?) try some powder, honey, you’re too shiny.
Why does Fox have to do this? Why not just make them topless and be done with it? Will some people believe anything if a stripper tells it to them? ;P
ChrissyZero is a sick, sad person. Most children of conservatives do not need government assistance. Only a complete nut case would make the comments that you do. You probably can’t conceive or find any males who would want to mate with you. You need mental help fast.
Hi Melissa! How many other fake people have you been today?
I recognize the writing style after all these years, chickpea.
I want you all to remember this thread when I accuse conservatives of having zero sense of humor. you just can’t make this stuff up.
(or CAN you?)
@ Melissa
May I suggest you need a reading comprehension course… By the way, if you look back through the MDN archives, you’ll find plenty of males who have offered to help ChrissyOne achieve motherhood.
@ C1
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If you’re not busy this weekend, I can be of service.
We need more “liberal freaks” like ChrissyOne
I presume. She’s one of the few with intelligent
comments on The Daily itself.
The Daily is an interesting concept and I’ll give
it a read for two weeks. After all it’s free! The
crossword puzzle is ridiculously easy and not
worth the effort. Seems to be dumbed down
to the cretin level. Like Chrissy says, the
navigation needs work. The Egypt stuff was
pretty good but a lot of the rest was like
eating cotton candy. Lots of fluff and little
substance. Today is Thursday and I opened
The Daily app to go back to Wednesday’s
issue to finish reading it and it’s gone. Does
this app download the current issue every
day to replace the previous issue ????
Doesn’t make sense, That’s unacceptable.
Don’t think I’ll drop the Washington Post
via PressReader, The Economist, or
Sporting News Today from Zinio anytime
soon for The Daily. This app needs lots of
work to improve navigation and content.
The back issue thing is somethin I noticed also.
That’s a bad mark for sure.
The problems are mounting.
As Daugav above points out, once you get a new issue, say goodbye to the last. It’s gone forever, unless there is some way to back up a day that I haven’t found.
And FOOTBALL!!! Yeah, baby, give me more of that. :/ considering that the Sports and Gossip sections are about half the book and fully useless, I think I can say with confiedence the rest of the cotton-candy fluff news isn’t making me likely to part with my weekly dollar.
The Daily will most likely cause problems for USA Today and other news for babies. The only good thing about it I have found so far is that it takes a few seconds for the advertising pages to load, so you can easily spot and pass them by. Like that 1 or 2 second delay you get from an auto-dialer sales call.
“Libtard” versus “Conservatard” blather doesn’t address the most noticeable aspect of The Daily: superficiality.
You got that right. I pretty much knew everything that was going on in all the articles already. The Daily is a valiant effort, but it’s all sizzle and no steak.
And not even really that much sizzle.
Not available in Canada Pity.
I had no idea there were so many experts on the topic of electronic newspapers.
Christ, there are soooo many available, is it any wonder this latest version from News Corp could actually distinguish itself from the pack?
All you pontificating politicos crack me up. You’re all so predictable and the only thing more pathetic is, how swiftly you get sucked in to these discussions.
Whatsmore, onlookers reading beyond your opening [opinion] statement are almost assured to be witness to a volley of namecalling! As soon as the labels come out, we know you’ve reached the extent of your knowledge.
heh heh heh
ATTENTION INTERFACE RETARDS:
Everything needs a back button. Just put it in there.
Why?
Click on a link that goes somewhere else in the issue…
AND THERE IS NO WAY BACK.
Just effing sloppy.
-c
Oh, and posting Facebook doesn’t work at all. Unless you call ‘working’ a posted link to the main Daily page, with no title. No Description. No preview icon.
If it doesn’t work yet I probably shouldn’t find it in a menu.
Sounds like the pricing and subscription model is about right. The rest is open for development. The best in class reader still isn’t with us yet. I sure hope when it gets here it won’t be some proprietary factor. In the heyday of print journalism, the medium was common to all and the competition was the quality of the work. A new app for every publication will be painful.
On a related note. I remember a New Yorker cartoon from years back, the punch line “On the internet, nobody knows your a dog.” Apparently, the same does not hold true for assholes.
Hey C1
You’re gonna have to speak up if you want Murdoch to hear you, cause I don’t think he hangs around here.
if by “It’s Terrific” Steve meant, “It crashes every time I use it”…
they yeah, it’s terrific.
@ G4Dualie
I don’t imagine that Rupe is going to listen to me. Anyway, it doesn’t matter much, because it’s now Day 4 and I’ve already completely lost interest. Because…
@ Jim – TIV
Yep. It was happening only once, and after the second time trying to start it, the app would finally open up.
But not today. I tried several times to open and download today’s issue. The first time I got a blank screen, then quit with no message. The second time, I got to the ‘Downloading new issue’ page, and then it crashed with no message. I tried a few more times to open it with the same results.
So sorry, The Daily, you totally blew it with me at least. If this is really what Steve honestly calls ‘terrific’, I think it might be time to sell some stock.
Here is my review that I have posted on the App Store:
I wanted to like The Daily. I really did. But there was just nothing to like.
First off, the technical issues:
The Daily was the slowest, clunkiest, most temperamental app on my iPad. The first day it crashed twice. After the second day, it took 3-4 launches to get it to run. After that, I tried several times to start the app and got nothing but a blank screen.
The “Turn for Photos” interface convention is dreadful. It causes the reader to move the iPad from whatever comfortable position they had it in to see all the content. This prevents the user from going through the whole issue in landscape mode, for instance, because then they would miss the story. Rotation should work either way, and not lockout content in either mode.
Navigation is spotty, and the rotating-carousel home screen is all fluff and bad, choppy function.
The app DOES NOT REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE. It starts up on the front page each time. This would not be so bad if there was a way to mark your place, but there is not.
There IS a page-save feature, but this is useless because it only saves that one page – if you load a saved page, there is no way to scroll to adjacent pages, you have to back out of the Saved Pages screen and go back to the issue.
After a new issue is loaded, forget about the old one. It’s gone. Want to finish that crossword tomorrow? Sorry, bud.
There is no back button. If you click a link that takes you somewhere else in the issue, there is NO WAY to go back to the previous page, other than scrolling manually back through the pages. Sloppy. Just inexcusably sloppy.
The one truly great thing about the Daily, technically, is something that News Corp probably doesn’t want you to notice – the ads take forever to load, so when you come to an ad page, you see a status-clock icon before you see a page. This makes the ads very easy to just skip over as you scroll through the issue. This is a lot like those phone-sales auto-dialers. You know how you can hear a few seconds of silence while your southeast Asian operator is being connected? It gives you plenty of time to hang up. Same idea.
Now, a word or two on content:
The Daily is news for babies. Nothing but the most obvious and inoffensive details about real stories like Egypt. I didn’t feel like I’d learned anything about the topics at all. It seems to be aimed mostly at football fans who like to make fun of hippies in Portland and who think that show is about real people. The TV spot presenter, Erin Aide (sp?) is blonde and orange and shiny and has all the journalistic credibility you’d expect of a former stripper who now works at a naughty-coffee drive thru. Why in the world does she lead the issue off? It says “if you like the hard-hitting reports in People Magazine and Tiger Beat, you’ll love The Daily!”
Then there’s the fluffy Gossip nonsense, which, given the level of Hard News reporting, is difficult to distinguish from the actual news. Lots of little 1 paragraph blips on some home remedy or strange-but-true fact. Sports stories that aren’t in the sports section, like hey look at these players with their long hair… golly aren’t they interesting! This effectively lengthens the sports sections and increases The Daily’s likelihood of having zero value at all to me. Maybe Murdock really likes to look at that silver trophy, but to me it’s just an easy way to see what I want to skip. And today (Sunday) it’s on the cover. Well hurrah. I comprehend that some people like football, but The Daily fetishizes it, and people who want that already have plenty of magazines. I thought this was going to be a news magazine.
So today, Sunday February 6, which is day 5 of the Daily, I have deleted the app. It’s really one of the worst I have ever used, so bad that it caused me to spend the time it took to write the above review, so that maybe you won’t have to waste your own precious time on this spice-less Taco Bell filler.