Why "The Daily" is an Abomination (and how to fix it)

I can't comment on the quality of the application, because for some reason that I can't understand it doesn't seem to be available for non-US iPad owners. Well, not in the UK at any rate.<p>Ah well, I guess I'll get by with The Times, Guardian, Telegraph, NY Times, LA Times, FT, WSJ, Int Herald Tribune and La Monde.<p>(And from the reviews I've heard, seems the content is fairly shoddy anyway, guess I'm not missing much.)<p>edit: I haven't yet had time myself to bother reading anything, but for anyone who does want to read the content without downloading the iPad app, check out <a href="http://thedailyindexed.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">http://thedailyindexed.tumblr.com/</a> which links to all the day's articles, as they are available on The Daily's website.

"The iPhone and iPad have to work a lot harder to display JPEGs than they do to display the equivalent PNGs"<p>That is a myth. It is the pixel format of the CGImage that matters, not the compression format of the source file. 32bpp premultiplied CGImages are the only format that the GPU will render natively as the contents of a CALayer. Since all JPEGs decode to 24bpp and most PNGs are saved as 32bpp, it's easy to see why this would be confused. Simply copying to a 32bpp CGImage is enough to make drawing quick again.<p>Coincidentally, this blog post also scrolls poorly on the iPad.

I am a little confused on what the daily is try to achieve. I've read that they were bringing together a top notch team of journalists to product top notch content. From other thing's it seems like they are content light and are playing on the interactiveness of the ipad to produce somewhat unique and engaging multimedia. And from everywhere I've read that even if they are doing this well the tech fails it horribly.

Is it just me, or can anyone else not scroll down to read the whole post on the iPad?

Who developed the app?

I went to their home page (<a href="http://www.thedaily.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thedaily.com/</a>) and clicked on the link "Am I going to be billed automatically after the free period". It told me "The URL you requested could not be found."<p>So let's get their value proposition right. This is a paid news source, appallingly badly executed, that doesn't bring any value that I can't get from free news sources such as Reddit or the BBC or Guardian.<p>I predict it will sink without trace, after wasting millions of dollars.

I've used the app a bit as well. At first I thought it was just design by committee, but I think that was wrong. It is probably closer to design by committee with a non-technical designer, followed by a development staff that never said no to any request. Either way, more effort was spent on 'cool factor' rather than usability.

It's strange to find a blog of an iOS developer, complaining, which you can't actually read on an iPad. I can't scroll the page at all.

if the red of the lhs is distracting, try this<p>javascript:document.getElementById('menu').style.backgroundColor="#c0c0c0"<p>[Edit: just realised it's only red if your mouse is over that area, which mine was]

Pearls before swine.<p>I have no bias against Mr. Murdoch but why waste the limited amount of time and energy afforded each of us by freely offering unrequested and uncompensated advice?

If I was Apple Inc, I would be happy with people who came up with ideas like the "The Daily." It provides Apple another source of high revenue for almost zero cost. The only thing Apple would need to setup is a payment system for this type of content.