Posts tagged apps
News.me: Leave the house, download news
This is my favorite use of iOS’s background geofencing yet:
I’ll think we’ve all been there: you get into a subway car, and just as the doors are closing, you realize that you’ve forgotten to take your phone out, pull to refresh, and wait 10 seconds to download the latest news articles to read offline. You curse under your breath and switch back to Angry Birds.
Today we’re pleased to introduce a new feature called Paper Boy. Simply set your home location so that whenever you leave home, News.me downloads your latest news in the background.
The best part about this? It’s such a clever, simple solution I imagine all serious news apps (cough-Instapaper-cough) will implement this feature shortly. Suddenly background downloading is no longer the domain of Newsstand bound apps. Hats off to Rob Haining for this sharp hack.
The Conversation Every Company Had Before CES
- Product Guy: You called?
- CEO: Yes, we're going back to CES next year and I want new features for our product so everyone will talk about it and buy it.
- Product Guy: OK, I'll go fire up R&D and cook up something new and innovative!
- CEO: No, that costs money. What's that thing I keep hearing about where everyone else does all that for free? Oh yeah, Apps. Put some Apps in our product.
- Product Guy: But we-
- CEO: Apps.
