App Store app review: The New York Times for iPhone/iPod Touch
Posted July 23rd, 2008 by GenghisPhlip
The New York Times (er..Slimes in some circles) has introduced a free application to the App Store which promises that you can “Enjoy the high-quality journalism of The New York Times on your iPhone, wherever you go”. The app is a reader for their major articles. After playing around with it I found that I personally prefer to just go to nytimes.com and see the full version. But if you are running 2.0 and would like to check it out then you have nothing to lose but time and perhaps a very nice news reader to gain.
Some random screenshots:
Configure the app to feed news from your geographical area
Cheap shot – You wish more papers were as reliable as the NY Times. Not perfect, but self-correcting, and that’s the best attribute of a newspaper — getting the news right.
Cheap shot??? Jim what are you thinking? This is a blog of personal opinion. It does not propose to be a news site. I think that is where GP was going with the article. He said “in some circles”. Do you deny that it is true that some refer to The New York Times as The New York Slimes? Apparently you do not listen to enough talk radio LOL.
I personally love The New York Times and am a subscriber. I don’t believe that bloggers should be accused of making a cheap shot at a news paper that you admit is not totally accurate. Self-correcting = fairly inaccurate.
Only my opinion so please do not blast me,
Amon
I appreciate your comment Jim. If you would like to join our discussion forum please register to become a member http://www.ifonenation.com/register.php. If you just came because you out to defend everything The New York Times does then your opinion is welcome here but please keep in mind that this is a site that caters to iPhone users and that while the New York Times is famous for taking a beating over inaccuracy elsewhere my ’slimes’ comment was meant to bring a smile to your face (People do commonly refer to the paper as the slimes you know)
@Amon: Thanks for the defense. You sir are a star!
Please direct any other discussion on this topic to the proper member discussion forum as future comments to this article will be ignored (and immediately deleted if rude or off topic) http://www.ifonenation.com/showthread.php?p=1416#post1416
The New York Times feeds off of sensationalism not facts. If it will sell papers, it will be printed. No one at the times cares about the truth. They are a bunch of leeches bent on misleading the world into accepting their twisted left leaning lies. I have no love for The New York Times and I will not use this idiotic iPhone application. They are lucky that GP did the report because if it had been me it would been in the Crapplication category for sure.
“You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs told New York Times writer Joe Nocera,
I would hardly call The New York Times a newspaper. It is more a of a tabloid and no sir, I do not wish more papers were like it. We have to get a true picture of the news from somewhere and the NYT style of sensation journalism does not fit the mold.
Stepping in and making some idiotic comment on a subject that you “Jim” obviously know nothing about is the definition of cheap shot. I suspect that you are one of the many insignificant interns that the NYT grinds through weekly.