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  "path": "/straits-times-ios-app-comments/",
  "publishedAt": "2011-08-01T02:16:00.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:bryys25pc2fnagnyxqgsglhd/site.standard.publication/3mn26bjkkmh23",
  "tags": [],
  "textContent": "I saw a few tweets about the Straits Times app being available for the iPad and thought I check it out. Some initial thoughts and suggestions:\n\nSTRAITS TIMES APP ON THE IPAD\n\n * EULA should go into the EULA accessible in the App store instead. There's a least 1 mistake in the EULA, referring to the \"I Do not Accept Button\" as the \"Cancel\" button.\n * UI is jerky, it doesn't respond immediately to finger dragging the screen.\n * Sometimes when you swipe to a new page, the images flashes.\n * Get rid of the animation for unrolling the paper after tapping on the \"iPad Edition\", \"PDF Edition\" or \"Breakign News\" buttons. It's unintuitive, especially as there's a pause before the animation to reveal the article starts.\n * The \"Breaking News\" UI seems quite different from the \"iPad Edition\", e.g. you can scroll articles up and down in \"Breaking News\" and website-like tabs are used for sections, but you swipe left-right in \"iPad Edition\" and tab buttons at the bottom are used for sections.\n * There isn't a clear visual response when you tap on the screen (especially articles) to indicate what you have tapped on. The articles suddenly pop up fullscreen.\n * Crashes within 1 minute of initial use, crashes again within the next few minutes.\n * I like that tapping on the photo thumbnails bring up a fullsize image with the caption. I wonder if there is something interesting that can be done along the lines of The Big Picture.\n\nSTRAITS TIMES APP ON THE IPHONE\n\n * EULA (see comment for EULA for app running on iPad).\n * Has an irritating ad that animates after each refresh. Perhaps move it to the top or bottom, but either way, just keep it stationary and don't flash it?\n * App slows down while reloading.\n * In a few minutes testing, seems more stable than running on the iPad.",
  "title": "Comments about Straits Times iOS app"
}