Comments on: AP’s Mobile News reader is a stellar iPhone app: Future platform for magazines and e-books, not just newspapers?

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 03 May 2009 04:52:10 +0000

This app is a piece of JUNK! it crashes ALL THE TIME – it is EXTREMELY slow at updating, I don’t know why it should be such a hard app to get right – it barely does anything – again it is JUNK!

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:19:18 +0000

The Toy Lounge of St. Paul MN makes custom iPhone apps for newspapers, magazines, children’s books and ebooks. Illustrated Children’s book apps are by far the easiest to create as no special reader is required. Anyone can create a special reader for newspapers and ebooks at a cost of $10,000 or so (less if you do your own programming of course). For newspapers and magazines the hard work is done if they already have RSS for their major content categories.

By: Todd Jonz

Todd Jonz — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:55:13 +0000

David writes:

> What location are you keying in? Lemme
> see if I can replicate the problem.

Rutland, VT, zip code 05701. Still nothing newer than July 14 (I erroneously said July 15 above), and the stories dated July 31 that were there on Thursday are still AWOL. Muy mysterioso.

> I’ll be interested in your other thoughts…it’s
> by far the best newspaper reader I’ve used

Agreed. Far superior to the lethargic NYT app, which is way too slow to be useful unless you really need to have everything cached for offline reading. But since I read the NYT and WaPo sites pretty thoroughly every day at my desk, the AP app will, for me, be a supplemental source at best.

There’s one room in the house in which I spend a brief period each day and find using the AP app on my iPod particularly handy, but in the interest of discretion I shall refrain from elaborating further.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:29:34 +0000

Bill and Todd:

B: Yep, you’re Da Man. Thanks for the tip.

T: I’m getting feeds for Alexandria, VA, Washington, DC, and NYC as fresh as within the hour. Please follow through and keep us posted. What location are you keying in? Lemme see if I can replicate the problem. I do see Miami Herald feeds aren’t later than August 1. Will contact AP and see what gives. Meanwhile I’ll be interested in your other thoughts—pro and con—on the reader. One improvement might be easily adjustable font styles and sizes. Still, it’s by far the best newspaper reader I’ve used, and the multimedia capability is awesome.

Thanks,
David

By: Todd Jonz

Todd Jonz — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:06:24 +0000

Has anyone else experienced problems with the local news feeds available from this app?

I installed it on July 31 and downloaded an assortment of local news for my zip code. As of this morning, August 2, no new local news had appeared. As an experiment I deleted the feed and added it back, only to find that the most recent story was dated July 15.

I wonder what’s up. Bugs? Copyright hassles? Cosmic radiation? Spacemenz?

By: Bill Janssen

Bill Janssen — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:14:17 +0000

Knew you’d like it .