The Economist World in Figures on iPhone Reviews – Page 2
3/5 rating based on 60 reviews. Read all reviews for The Economist World in Figures on iPhone.
The Economist World in Figures on iPhone is free iOS app published by The Economist Newspaper Group Inc.
Waste of an app
Cashfortrash
I don't understand how such large players in the media game could come out with such a garbage app. Poor design. Poor organization. I could have missed it, but also there is no way to enlarge to full screen, so the display area is tiny and you need to keep scrolling all over the place. Yes you can double the viewing area, but that just doubles the font size. The end result, you can only view six or seven lines of a list at a time. Oh, there's a sloppy built in feature, that displays lists in bar graph format if you rotate the screen to landscape mode. The problem is the programmers put the feature in on every list. So, for example, looking at the spaceflight mission list in landscape mode, you see rows of meaningless bar graphs, and the years of missions (eg 1957) appear with commas in them (eg 1,957). I also just tried the public debt info, and no numbers are displayed at all in portrait mode. Very sloppy. The little print book is much better. Very dissapointing. I really wish i could get a refund.
App needs lots of work.
Jh26
When is a new version coming? This one cuts names and text, regions fields are wrong and has many other obvious flaws.
Aiming to the right target... but needs work
JRMD
Waiting for an update. The information here is valuable. But from the programming standpoint needs more work. More correlations, graphs, easy access.. trivia not a priority can make of this application a real HIT!
Rubbish rip off
Rsole96
The bulk of the data is 2008. Don't buy it. Apple needs to create a returns policy.
Worthless trivia
Abstractreasoner
Does anyone really care if "Columbia is the world's 50th biggest emitter of carbon dioxide?"
I do
iPhone Guide
If you know who's the 50th or last an you can understand why they're better or worse off (along with other stats that you may find useless) then you can actually analyze and make policies along with it
The Economist - World Figures
john gaus
Great app. Should also include maps that show bordering nations.
The Economist better wake up
JayPizzl
All The Economist has is its brand, so it's surprising to see such a weak offering with their name on it. The country lists are woefully incomplete, the sort function may or may not work, there are no maps at all, and many lists are simply blank - like largest cities, for example. The trivia feature was obviously an after thought. This app is much worse than simply using Wikipedia.