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Guardian iphone app - anyone got it yet?
Posted by Theo Zoffrok on 17 December 2009 - 1:21pm.
I look at the Grauniad most days, and occasionally buy it on a Friday. The app looks as if it might be worth £2.39, although it is merely offering what's already available free. So the question is whether its user-friendliness warrants shelling out. So, can any of you offer an opinion?
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Can you explain to me what *Grauniad* is all about?
I keep reading this and am always left utterly confused!
Legendarily bad sub-editors
There was a time when the Guardian had the reputation of many typographical errors : while this is no longer the case, Private Eye coined "The Grauniad" to cover the quality of sub-editing/type-setting
It’s an old Private Eye joke
In the days of hot metal The Guardian was notorious for typographical errors. So Private Eye started calling it The Grauniad and it seems to have stuck.
Thanks!
Tahts emad it qiute crael.
I'm wondering about it too
I read the Guardian online much more often than I buy it, but I am tempted to give this a shot.
This way they will get something back from me!
I'll try it out and report back.
I bought it because I seem
I bought it because I seem to buy apps the way I used to buy singles. It is very good, nice interface, I thought there was a way to save articles for offline viewing, but there's not and it won't send articles to Instapaper. You can send article links to Facebook but not Twitter (boo). But overall it's good.
The other app I got this week was Pastebot, it's crazy! www.pastebot.com
No offline viewing?
That surprises me, as the advert for it on the Guardian's website explicitly said you can do that.
I think there is
Scroll down to the bottom of the first page, there is a button for "offline viewing".
This lets you select what you want to download for offline viewing
I stand corrected
There is offline viewing, it just wasn't in the settings where I thought it would be...
First Impressions postiive
Well laid out, easier to read than in Safari, off-line reading supported.
Worth the money
Yes
It's excellent, well worth the money. Very well laid out and the offline stuff works well.
A couple of areas could be improved but that's what subsequent (free?) releases are for.
I think it's my favourite app already.
Compare and contrast
Forgetting the content, is it as good as, better than the Independent one? I only use it as an offline reader on an ipod touch.
The FPO
downloaded it to her iphone and really rates it. My iphone seems to be engaged in a covert mission to annoy me meanwhile, so I haven't got it, but will do once all is sorted.