Comments on: CNN Launches iPhone App, Includes Lazy Reporting Feature

By: stock images & templates

stock images & templates — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:53:15 +0000

surely a scaled down app can be provided for free. i dont want to have to pay to see the news!

By: Damian McDowell

Damian McDowell — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:47:02 +0000

I have tried also to download it here in the UK but am being denied. I too can access the CNN website, livestreams, videos etc. Why can we not download this iphone application in the UK

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:32:41 +0000

Can somebody explain to me why IPhone and ITunes users in the UK can’t access the CNN application. Especially given that there are no restrictions to accessing any web content from CNN online. I can stream live news via their site and read all of their stories online. It seems senseless to me that I can’t download their app.

Likewise the ESPN application – again, I can listen to all of their online radio via the web from their own website, but I can’t download their application.

Given that both are just alternative ways of accessing the same content, I don’t see why there are restrictions.

By: Joe N

Joe N — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:37:41 +0000

Check out the iTunes reviews for the CNN app. A good number of people are going nuts over the fact that there are ads in an app that they paid for. Some claim (erroneously) that it is against Apple rules.

CNN did not help their own cause by not including the fact that there are ads in the app in the product description and by only showing screen shots that do not contain ads. I thought that was a little deceptive.

I would guess, based upon the number of reviews and my knowledge of the paid news app category, that CNN is selling about 2000 copies per day of the app – hardly enough to bother with the revenue from the ads. The number of apps sold will decrease dramatically as soon as they stop pushing it on TV. At that rate, the app will reach the same viewership as their web site in a little less than 1000 years.

By: Joe L.

Joe L. — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:22:53 +0000

“The paid app”
“pricey” (really?)
“since the cost of entry for the end user is $1.99″
“Since it’s a paid app, I’d also expect”
“but irksome in a paid app.”
“Is it worth $1.99?”
“there is the occasional ad and you have to pay for the privilege”
“I’d like to see a scaled down free version”

Uhhh…. hung up a bit on the price? Is a $2 app from a major, for-profit corporation really that much of a kick in the nuts to you? $2 gets you, what, 1 day of stellar AT&T service, or 1/100th of the initial cost of the phone? And this is a one-time $2 cost, for nearly unlimited content? Jesus, I think someone can’t afford to own an iPhone to begin with.

By: Nello

Nello — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:47:38 +0000

You are right, no one once an AD on a App they paid for. Isn’t Lexus paying enough to cover the App?