The Boston Globe ePaper Reviews – Page 3
2/5 rating based on 100 reviews. Read all reviews for The Boston Globe ePaper for iPhone.
The Boston Globe ePaper is free iOS app published by Globe Newspaper Company, Inc.
New update, new - what?
K. M. Peterson
So, now the update to the Globe app, “completely redesigned”. Which means, what? The ability to go forward a page and now (wait for it) the ability to skip forward to the end of the paper? And we need that function at the top of every page? Crashes less? Wow. Yes, great; don’t call fixing what has been broken for a year “progress”, ok? The fundamental design flaw is the assumption that the most important function in the reader is presenting the simplified version of an article: if I just wanted plain-text, why wouldn’t I just read the web version? What I want, on an iPad, when I tap on article text is to zoom in on the text (and graphics, and page presentation). Why am I downloading a high-res rendering if you think all I want to do is see the web version of an article? Have you ever tried to pinch-open something while riding a bus? Or holding a device with one hand while using the other to hold on while on the Green Line? How about maybe I want a way - again, we’re talking about a facsimile edition - to follow a page one article inside the edition. Why isn’t there a way to tap the “Continued” text to get to that page? If I do want to share, or print, or read a simplified version, why can’t I do that with a long-tap? Why do I have to describe features that were in the App four years ago and somehow removed? All of these were functions that were disappeared. Why? And, finally, why isn’t there any intelligence in the app around combining hundreds of years of design, typography, and organizational knowledge into something that is “better” than what came before? I use the apps from NYT, The Post, and WSJ; they’re all good but I can’t believe the value of the page design just gets dropped on the floor. So dispiriting to get my hopes up that “new” might mean actually “improved”. Too bad we don’t have something like a “media lab” in the area to work on this. And, honestly, too bad for all that really good work that went into the “Web 2.0” website that now just seems to exist to “serve” advertising there occasionally interspersed with what used to be called news.
Worthless.
SuperEdit
A complete redesign and now the thing doesn’t work at all. Says I’m in “offline mode”, even though all other apps can see the internet, then eventually gives up and suggests a restart. Which yields the same results. Jeeze. A couple of high school kids with a half-case of Jolt could probably rewrite this disaster overnight, but in the meantime I’m stuck.
Worst
Kathleen in Brookline
This app is on reliable, often not updated for the current issue. It repeats many articles so for example it will say there are 100 articles but in fact there are 70 they just repeat. This morning I can’t even get into the app. And they are in the media business!
August 2018 Digital globe
30 year long subscriber
I thought the previous e paper addition was bad but I think August 2018 new improved so called e edition is totally horrible. Everything about it is bad especially for people like me who are visually challenged. Before at least one could read paper in large type. Now all you have really bad zoom capacity which is not only in adequate but with the slightest touch crashes. It is in grey type, the menu is unreadable in very smallwith no capacity to increase it. Is The Globelll trying to get rid of subscribers?I have subscribed to The Globe for 30 years and I'm now considering having to cancel my subscription which I have admired and values. Please fix this mess!
Finally!
Lonestar71
The new app is great. It actually works, looks good, and it only too the Globe three years. Congratulations.
Waste of time
WFH1018
The recent update of the online version of the Globe is pathetic. It had made the downloading and reading the paper more complicated and time consuming than it was before. For the most expensive paper around they should have done a much better job than what they did. I downloaded the San Jose Mercury News in about 4 minutes this morning and the Globe took a couple of hours on the same internet. And even when it has been downloaded you still have to redownload each page to read it. I would and should have given a Zero or a negative rating it is so ridiculous.