Wall Street Journal iPad App - The Full Print Experience

p>The Wall Street Journal is an app that took avideo, no doubt created to burnish the interactive
long time to review, not because of any issuesfeatures of the iPad. You can slide your finger left
with the app, but rather the business model beingto right  to navigate between pages. On the right
pursued by the Wall Street Journal.  You see Ithere is a secondary menu that lists all articles in a
am a subscriber to both the and the iPhone app.particular section, you can scroll this list to see all
The thought of paying $18 per month on top ofavailable articles. Sliding your finger from the top
my $100 a year and the additional fee for theof the screen moves between sections. For
iPhone really made it hard to evaluate the app onexample sliding down will shift from the front page
its own merits.section to the greater New York section. Moving
There has been a lot of experimentation withyour finger on the bottom to the top will move
newspaper content on the iPad, the obviousyou from the Greater New York section to the
examples would be the New York Times EditorsPersonal Journal. When using the application, one
Choice and the WSJ app.  Whereas the Editor'swill be amazed at the sheer breadth of content,
Choice app consists of curated content from thequality of the presentation in the layouts; this is as
New York Times website, the Wall Street Journalclose to print as you possibly get on a interactive
iPad app is a full on replacement for the printdevice.
edition.Upon loading the application you will beThe Wall Street Journal app is an in-depth
presented with the last seven days worth ofexperience, you can see that a lot of work has
WSJ content,along with options to read savedbeen done by the Dow Jones & Company
articles, saved sections and your stock portfolio. developers to transfer the experience from print
I did find the loading of the daily edition somewhatto digital without any compromises. At first I was
slow and I hope this can be improved in futurereally angry at the thought of paying another fee
updates. Once you select a daily edition to read,in addition to the print, iPhone, Web and iPad
you're presented with a layout that is based toaccess. But now I can see that with the amount
the print edition with featured content in theof quality content being created there must be
middle of the screen and secondary articles alongsome sort of cost, I only wish that there was a
the left and right columns.discount for Web and iPhone subscribers.
Selected articles are broken up over severalWall Street Journal v1.04
pages - it's very reminiscent of reading a printedDeveloper: Dow Jones & Company Inc.
paper, except for the addition of slideshows and