Financial Times: Business News

Positives: 1. Financial Times gives World News, 2. Is technically sound. 3. Has managed to avoid wokism and politically correct bull.

First some feedback on the app’s UI: The last update is horrible, more blank space and less information, an headline and a short sentence now occupies twice the space, and the app now requires miles of scrolling to get anywhere. And you managed to keep all the infuriating flaws, good job. Even when the edition of the newspaper is set to Europe there isn’t an EU (or at the very least Europe) tab/section in the app’s main menu. I have to go to the World tab/section, scroll (now even more) until I find the Europe sub-section, and even then only a selection of 10 or so articles is available there at any time, which now occupies twice the space while giving no extra information, Who designed this? Who thought this is a good ideia? Give me submenus that allow me to see all the articles I want regarding a specific subsection, like Europe without having to scroll through the entire world, or luxury or financial with having to scroll through all other sectors. Now regarding Europe: How many articles have been published by the FT about Brexit? How many hours of podcasts? Yet, for a newspaper that likes to think of itself as being truly international and global, its perspective in all of those articles and podcasts is always extremely English and unforgivingly insular. In all of those discussions about Europe, FT journalists and editors seem to completely forget two very important things: the first is that they too are supposed to be European, but let’s drop that false pretence, the FT journalists, like most British people, have always written in an extremely “us and them” way, “us” being the British, and “them” being Europe, so much so that I couldn’t call any of them European when they all seem to see themselves as being so separate and superior to “them”. In a FT podcast there is literal sniggering about europeans, an FT editor, a grown man sniggering because some Lord or Baroness or something like that made a joke about “telling them like it is anytime they go to Europe”, shameful. The second thing FT journalists and editors are forgetting is the European perspective in all of those discussions about Europe. Nowhere is this more apparent than in articles and podcasts about Brexit, in which the FT completely forgets that Brexit is a discussion between the UK and Europe, which becomes particularly curious considering the size of the EU when compared to the UK. You write and talk about what is best for London and the UK, you hope for a good outcome for London

A aplicação está muito bem desenvolvida, fácil utilização e navegação. No portfólio é incompreensível não dar para alterar a moeda, ou pelo menos sincronizar com a que está definida no website. Deveria haver a possibilidade de gerir o mesmo tal como no site.

The Comments are what I read. Everything else is noise.

The FT is one of the best newspaper in the western world. What a shame that its digital format is massively sub-par. Try retrieving any past article you missed when it was publishing. Good luck with that, except if you have the title word for word. The search function is abysmal. This is not acceptable in the age of Google and ChatGPT

The app is really difficult to read because the text is too wide. In portrait mode on iPad the line width spans the entire width of the screen making it uncomfortable to read. Not a problem with the size of the text but how wide the line is. Please allow users to change it.

Perhaps the best digital face of any paper. Unending and timely offering with superb journalism. Always a pleasure!

The articles are good, and the AI reading is great, but app has lots of underlying issues… cannot be used offline it crashes so often that you want to ask for your money back! Don’t expect to be read the article while I have no connection, but at the very least have the option of reading myself… it’s in need of proper testing before releasing the versions!

I don’t like the live format

Top content, easy to navigate through App.