M&G Breaking News

The Mail Guardian is a beacon of quality journalism and vigorous reporting in an otherwise rather bleak South African media landscape The MG is also a pioneer in digital publishing in this country and its not surprising that they are the first SA publication to release a goodlooking and useful app for the iPhone There is a lot of content here from news to art to opinion as well as cartoons by Zapiro news photographs and a selection of video news reports Im not sure why the app is called MG Breaking News when its not really a breaking news app at all Breaking news is now the province of Twitter so a news app like this cant really hope to compete But thats just a minor niggle This app is in effect the full MG with enough content to last for a whole week of reading Some other minor niggles the typeface is a bit on the small side and there appears to be no option to adjust the size There is also no option to change the typeface from the very bland choice here Helvetica I think Still it is readable Its also very nice to have the MGs Thought Leader blogs as a section on the site but not so nice to have to read the blogs on Safari after only a paragraph on the app Other than these niggles Im really pleased with this app and hope it takes its rightful place as a mustbuy for all who are interested in the world as seen from a South African perspective                 Some flaws but a great app from one of the worlds great papers

I installed the update and Zapiro works now Thanks for fixing it                 Woot

Im a big MG fan and I love their work This app is certainly useful and makes it easier to read the online MG articles as opposed to opening safari and reading the identical articles on the homepage Two issues though that I think need attention 1 Implement a comments system or better still show the comments that are already on the MG homepage articles The articles are identical so it would be nice to be able to read the existing comments instead of waiting to turn on the Mac to get my fix of the Dave Harris comedy show 2 This one is the deal breaker no offline viewing mode This is a bad oversight When out of WiFis reach I would like or expect rather to be able to read the articles that should have been saved to some sort of cache This is standard on any iDevice news app see Huffington Post for example With the huffpost I can simply refresh it before walking out the door on my way to work and all articles are stored and ready for reading even if there is no WiFi or signal MG must update to offer this it is a basic feature that the developer should have included Thanks              A big MG fan

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The M G is a great weekly newspaper But the app is disappointing No push content on breaking news or Fridays lead stories And for the amount of money you pay youd expect a better app The News24 app is a much better alternativesource of news and it is able to push breaking news to your iPhone Ohhhhand it is free        App expensive and no great features