Gizmodo
Matt Buchanan at Gizmodo take a look at what’s available for reading material on the iPad, including comic books, e-books, Web sites and, near to the heart of Mobile Media, “news, news, news.”
There are only about 100 apps in the iPad news category so far, and many of them are aggregators, feed readers or social networks. Two dozen, more or less, are from major media outlets. Buchanan provides some early feedback from among that list:
New York Times Editor’s Choice
The app is “…kind of limited but the NYT plans to ‘keep refining and upgrading the application,’ so expect it to get richer over time. For now though, it’s free and ad-supported.”
The Wall Street Journal
“The Wall Street Journal iPad might in fact be the best of breed now, at least in terms of delivering the full content of the newspaper.”
NPR
“One of the busier news apps, navigation is dominated by sliding ‘tapes’ for topics like news, or arts & life. It’s one of the apps that has me excited about the iPad as an information appliance…”
Associated Press
“…it’s also possibly the most interesting, making use of multimedia, location and other features, taking this whole ‘app’ thing pretty far out there for a simple news app.”
USA Today
“… the app’s worth checking out, if only because it has the least to lose in terms of people thinking of it as a newspaper so it plays with things, like popover widgets of sports scores and weather.”
Time
“It’s nothing that’ll blow your head off with its amazingness, but it feels really natural, and far better than most of the other weak iPhone/iPad mag apps.”
