Katie Piretti, submitted 7 years ago
In “All the News You Want, When You Want It,” Mickey Meece writes about other news-oriented apps that tailor the articles to a user’s interests:
At first, that meant visiting a handful of Web sites on Safari, Apple’s Web browser that comes installed on the iPad. It hit the usual suspects — my local paper, the Weather Channel, ESPN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and CNN — before checking Twitter feeds to see what everyone else was reading.
After a while, I started downloading dedicated applications from these news organizations, but I was put off by having to open and close so many apps just to check headlines, scores, traffic and the weather. It was more efficient to access the sites on Safari. Then I discovered a bevy of news apps on iTunes — Flipboard, Pulse, SkyGrid, Taptu, Fluent News, Flud and News360 — that gather the news and display it in a form a newshound can be comfortable with: the flippable pages of a magazine.
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