Comments on: Clayman: The Daily’s Free Trial Run Will Continue

By: Sophlady

Sophlady — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:38:18 +0000

I wasn’t able to tolerate The Daily for the original two-week trial period. I tried to read it daily for the first four or five days. But, it took forever to load and crashed so often. And, each time they supposedly improved the app, it had to be deleted and reinstalled from scratch, something I’ve never seen in the App Store before. So, I deleted it from my iPad last week, assuming that would be permanent since I will not pay for it.

Even when The Daily can actually be read the articles lack substance and don’t compensate with entertainment value.

Not only am I a journalism junky, my first career was in print journalism for large dailies. Methinks the larger problem is with the news staff, starting with a managing editor who cares more about attitude than competent reporting.

By: Paige Glover

Paige Glover — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:41:06 +0000

The Daily is the biggest disappointment in years. As both a News Corp. fan and lover of their NY Post and Wall Street Journal apps, I assumed this would be a terrific product; so much so that I foolishly paid for it from the start. Besides taking forever to download and then crashing more often than not, when it does actually load it is awful. Instead of the best of WSJ and NY Post; or best of People and the London Times it is the worst of all of the above. Bad at both ends of the spectrum- trash and journalism. What is more distressing, it is getting worse not better!

By: William D

William D — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:21:08 +0000

The Daily looks like a trashy magazine with content expense going on photographs/video rather than any decent writing! But hey, that’s probably what sells in the long run..

By: Ibin Nibi

Ibin Nibi — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:42:28 +0000

A Virtual Vacuum of News
I can only speculate that the reported $30M budget was invested as follows: UI = $29.9M, News = $0.01M. Makes USA Today read like the The London Times. It’s “pretty”, but should appear in the “Games” category vs. “News”. I actually feel LESS informed after reading “The Daily”. After loading (loathing) this app on my iPad, I was immediately compelled to read the cereal box in front of me this morning for some actual useful information. The Daily may actually be capable of lowering it’s “readers” knowledge of world facts, news and generic information. It’s the first so-called news application that’s programmed to lower the IQ of it’s users. It should be registered as an “adult” application as it’s far to dangerous and toxic for young minds.