Apple, Inc and News Corp. announced ‘The Daily’ today for the iPad. The Daily is a daily newspaper that reads like an interactive magazine. There are interactive photos, maps, graphs, and videos. If you have an iPad, you can get a free two week trial by downloading the app here. While it is certainly prettier than most, there are a number of apps that already take advantage of the iPad’s interactive touch screen and use a subscription model, including the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times which is said to be putting up a pay wall for their app ealy this year.
I am going to spend some time with ‘The Daily’ while the trial period is under way and I will let our readers know if I feel the $.99 a week price is worth it over other free solutions like using the free Google Reader as an aggregator into an app like River of News. In the meantime, check out ‘The Daily’ announcement video below.
Posted on February 2, 2011