He was pontificating about how his new iPhone app, News Fuse, supplies you with content from 18 different news outlets.The app gives you the content in a brilliantly streamlined, slick fashion without littering icons all over your screen. The news sources appear en masse or disappear with a single touch. Every one of the sites features comprehensive, up-to-the-minute content, laid out simply and attractively. It takes roughly five seconds for each of the 18 to refresh, update and appear on your screen.He loves that this costs him only a one-time fee $0.99. He estimates that if he paid for all this content it would be over $100 a month and once you got around to reading them the news would be old.
Hurrah for the News Fuse? Maybe to people like Ray Richmond who can't seem to slow down enough to enjoy a magazine or a cup of coffee with the newspaper. Reading news content on a cell phone sounds as appealing as churning butter. Call me crazy, but who wants to squint to read the iPhone screen? How much thicker does Apple want my glasses to get?
To me, this app sounds like a good idea in theory, but in practice isn't so hot. My eyeballs are hurting just thinking about it. Do any of you out there read stuff like this on your phones?
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