Economist Films Reviews – Page 2
3/5 rating based on 17 reviews. Read all reviews for Economist Films for iPhone.
Economist Films is free iOS app published by The Economist Newspaper Group Inc.
One expects more from The Economist
bobo6205
This is a nice news app for seventh graders...and Fox News viewers.
No captioning or subtitles...
YetAnotherDavid
Extremely disappointing that there's no support for closed captioning or subtitles. This is especially surprising considering how well built the rest of the Economist's offerings are; their magazine app is simply the best I've seen and deserves six stars out of five. The contrast makes me wonder if Films is just an experiment and will even be around six months from now.
But why?
kolio-aheloy
Is a 25 year fan of your magazine, have you thinking most of all, why? Why fracture further our attention? Yes, it makes sense that that each channel has its own application: to attract but free electron that could do with an educated opinion. Yes, it makes sense so that each channel can attract different sponsorship. But please, give us one application once we have given you our single proof of allegiance.
Pretty great
Ted Z.
Now I don't have to dig through back issues of Espresso to get videos I've missed. Plus, I can see he whole Economist Films catalogue in one place - good for viewing the stuff you did before I was a subscriber. Plus the interface is simple, clean, and apparently I might even be able to Chromecast these videos now? Pretty great.
Nice but unnecessary.
Taylor 3241
Why break the videos into another app? This should simply be a section of one of the other two apps that I already use for the Economist. There was a certain amount of serendipity that happened when the videos were part of espresso. Now? I bet user engagement will be down after the initial download spike. I would rethink this move. 3 apps for one subscription? It's too much.
Great App
Appesque
No sure what I think of you moving it from the exclusively iPhone Espresso. But, please add portrait orientation support, even if people will most likely rotate it to watch the video. :)
Great films, can’t search and won’t play
Mike in Potomac
These are excellent short films, but this app only lists the most recent two or three — you can list each themed series, but not what was released last week. Most annoying is when it pushes a notification about a new release, but it won’t play because the content hasn’t populated the distribution network yet.