Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Newspapers on the iPad tablet

I'm a news addict but the house is overrun with paper and it's time to go electronic. News Limited did a fine job, right at the iPad launch with The Australian for iPad, but it's not without a few glitches...

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The Sydney Morning Herald launched this week with an astonishingly bad tablet version of the paper - basically a PDF of the whole thing, weighing in at 30MB to download or more, hard to navigate, slow and just plain wrong for the platform.

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You've got to be kidding folks..

The New Zealand Herald has shown the way to some extent with a much more fluid experience.

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The winner this week is Flipboard who have ripped content from all over the place but really given us a way to browse that's interesting and deep by including content from social media that enriches the basic story.

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There's lots to learn and I suspect that the way we read news on tablets will be nothing like it looks now in a year or two.

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