The Economist - News, Podcasts

Terrible costumer service. They failed to deliver me any printed edition, although I paid for. And they refused to refund me!! Moreover, when I compliant, they said they will give me a discount if I subscribe for one year. They are trying to even sell me more, and get more profits from me by using my problem!

I have been an avid reader for more than 20 years from paper back to digital, but I have finally cancelled my subscription as the quality has drastically gonna down and more importantly the paper is clearly is not neutral nor independent….I used to very much enjoy the economic and business sections however it is clear that their focus in the last few years have been political lobbying, propaganda and selling one sided political narratives…..the last straw is their coverage, support, narrative and lack of condemnation for a country that is clearly an apartheid state intent on genocide….

Legacy App was better as one could use the Economist for best use of time having a weekly review of what has globally happened and can have easy access to the previous issues. There is no point of trying to position the Economist as a daily news house where it is already a dark red ocean!

To me personally TE is the main source of news and analysis, I am in the line with their approach in viewing the world .( Objectivize issues )

No other magazine can match their quality of reporting and the language their correspondents write. It should be part of curriculum of English courses in every school and college.

There is always an issue with The economist app.. this version doesn’t launch. I did all the typical trouble shooting steps but still doesn’t work

So frustrated with all the feature regressions in the new app.

The magazine is wonderful. The app used to be too. But the new version doesn’t allow you to read an issue linearly - it prompts you to jump around. Downloaded content disappears making offline access problematic. And it’s hard to know which articles you’ve read. Please go back to the old version.

The Economist doesn’t need my endorsement of the quality of their journalism. It speaks for itself. Rather, I’ll comment that their app is wellAdesigned and refreshing to use. Their developers have made large leaps in the past several years to make the interface less buggy and more focused. I love being able to easily download entire editions, listen to articles with real narrators, and search for past articles. I have no complaints. Some uses complain of the ads, but I’d encourage you to hold your criticism. Media companies cannot survive on subscription fees alone—that’s been largely true since their inception. I suppose that makes me an ad-apologist, but if these ads enable the high-quality journalism we all love, then I feel we should grin and bear the ads. And for what it’s worth, I’ve never found the ads to be particularly distracting.

First it has no memory: I am unable to resume reading from where I left: when I switch or walk away from an article and come back, it resets to main window. Yes I remember what I was reading earlier today but it is annoying to refind from main window. This app is supposed to be the reader of the newspaper. Second, the audio option has many bugs: e.g: you can’t even see the queue. You say “clear the queue” but it does not. When you build audio queue the sequence from the newspaper is not followed (US section should not begin with Lexington column). I did stick with the Legacy app-was much better- and the Apple Podcast option (no longer available). It sounds like this app developer never finished the project since at least 3 years…