Garbage-app of the year

Its hard to imagine anything being worse than this. The app runs on both iPad and iPhone, but you have to buy each edition twice, once for each device. When you buy an edition, the immediate response is "an error has occurred, please try again later." At first, you could just tap the edition again and it would download. Now the error seems to be permanent. Oh, Im sure the problem will be fixed in a week or two, but I wanted to read todays news TODAY!

The problems dont end there.

I purchased both the May 1 edition and the May 2 edition, only to discover that they were identical and both dated May 2 in the text.

When you go to a new page, it takes forever to display. You have plenty of time to go get a fresh cup of coffee between pages. This also happens when you resize a page or move to a different article. Oh, it also refreshes the page at random times, for no apparent reason. Youll be reading along, and the whole screen will blur-out and the excruciatingly slow display starts all over again ... Kerchunk, kerchunk, kerchunk ... Time to go wash the car or mow the lawn.

If that werent enough, the app fails completely at random times. Youll be reading along, and whoosh ... Good bye! The app is just gone.

So who did win that presidential election anyway? If this app were my only source of information, Im sure Id never find out.

P. Maurer about Journal Le Monde, v2.3