The Washington Post App for iPad (iTunes link)
I’ve used this a bit in the past few days and like it a lot. It feels snappier than The New York Times’s iPad app. I find it easy to browse through the sections and read stories I’m interested in. Easier than using the webpage.
A few niggles:
- I think prefer pagination to scrolling for long articles on the iPad (as opposed to on the Web), but here I don’t mind it much.
- They’ve locked out copy and paste, which is silly.
- The ever-present ad bar at the bottom seems like wasted space. Maybe the ads could float in/around the articles instead? Worse is the floating social media bar thing. It’s a lot of pixels at the bottom of the page I’m just ignoring. It’s early, though. Maybe they’ll make good use of it.