The Daily for iPad - Is it Revolutionary?

Yesterday, the very much anticipated new digital news publication from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp, The Daily was released. The Daily is one of the applications that brings the newspaper to iPad. The cost for getting the app to where it is now was about $30 million, with a budget of the newspaper is $500,000 daily. Murdoch strongly believes the app is going to revolutionize the way users consume the news.

The Daily holds over 100 pages of content, HD video, hi-resolution photos, all the aspects of the print newspaper and even Sudoku and Crossword Puzzles. Each morning, new content is pushed to the application. With the rate at which news occurs and breaking news flashes, The Daily will drop in the new content right as it happens. To get the new paper everyday you must purchase a subscription. The weekly subscription is just $0.99 and $39.99 for the year. The subscriptions are a new feature in the App Store that Apple wants all digital publications to use. The app, itself, is free with the subscriptions added on. As of now, a free two week subscription is running.

My thoughts on The Daily: The Daily had quite an amount of hype leading up to the release and this has caused many people to be very underwhelmed with the app, just as some skeptics were with iPad. In my opinion the app has many good and interesting features like in-app voice comments and the 360º photos, but there are many things that need to be fixed. Scrolling through pages is rather slow and quite annoying at times. The actual news content is alright, but I would have to say that I prefer the likes of The Huffington Post and The New York Times. Page previews are low quality, but look better when opened. The biggest problem with The Daily, is the amount of crashes. So is it revolutionary? As of now I really can't say so, yet. I do believe that The Daily may soar to unmeasurable popularity, but we must give it some time for now.

Down below is a video hands-on with The Daily from my YouTube channel, TechVetica. Thanks for reading.