Only real downside to The Economist though is their app. It's a complete embarrassment, the worst I've seen. It's comically bad, don't-just-fire-them-shoot-them bad.
For listening, I download the weekly copy and that makes it a bit more reliable.
If anyone from the economist is listening, please give me the option of putting the next 15s, previous 15s buttons on the Lock Screen (it matches what I do for podcasts).
A few months ago they broke swiping, if you can believe that. It's now suddenly hard to swipe to the next article, because it wants to scroll up or down instead. How the hell do you break swiping in an Android app in 2022!
And to top it all off, the insult on top of the ridiculously bad experience: the regular pop-up (when you're reading), to ask how you like the app? Type your feedback here! Which is 100% ignored of course, for YEARS. I've taken to just sending in "fuck you".
What, me bitter?
With the Apple News app, you can log in to your Economist account and get access to the economist content through the News app.
I suspect that the app is just so heavy and bloated that it performs really poorly on older phones.
Not that there's any excuse for that. All it should be doing is displaying some text so you'd think it would be pretty lightweight.
But now I love the app. The typography is decent, they support light/dark themes, you can play human-read audio of every piece individually, etc.
I’m curious, what are your problems with the app?