- CategoryNews
- First releasedSeptember 30, 2011
- Versions1 archived
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- SellerThe Economist
- Bundle IDcom.economist.iphone.na
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
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• Our award winning app is free to download. • Free Editor’s picks access. Registered readers can read or listen to a selection of must-read articles chosen each week by John Micklethwait. • Subscribers enjoy full access to each week’s issue of The Economist.
Our award winning app allows registered readers to read a selection of free content each week, while subscribers with digital access can enjoy the full issue every Thursday from 4pm EST/ 9pm GMT.
FEATURES
This major update includes extensive improvements including:
• A brand new look and feel • An enhanced audio-player • Improved bookmarking • Extensive bug fixes
You will also continue to have access to the following features:
• Read or listen to each week’s full issue from Thursday 4pm EST/ 9pm GMT. • Download The Economist and enjoy offline reading anytime, anywhere. • Access to back issues of The Economist. • Registered readers may purchase single issues using In App Purchases. • Subscribe within the app and get full access to Economist.com and The Economist apps.
SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS
• Subscribe quarterly (12 issues) for USD £39.99 or annually (51 issues) for USD $129.99 or buy a single issue for GBP £4.99. If available, you will be charged in your local currency at the prevailing exchange rate as defined by iTunes. • Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. • No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. • Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the price of the original subscription. • You can manage auto-renew of your subscription in your iTunes account settings. • The app may offer a subscription with a free trial period. At the end of the trial period, full price of the subscription will be charged thereafter. • You may cancel a subscription during its free trial period via the subscription setting through your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged. Please visit http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4098 for more information. • You may turn off the auto-renewal of your subscription via your Account Settings. However, you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period. • Full terms of use can be found at http://www.economist.com/legal/terms-of-use.
ABOUT THE ECONOMIST
The Economist is a weekly international news and business publication offering independent and clear reporting, commentary and analysis on world current affairs; business, finance, science and technology, culture, society, media and the arts.
ALSO AVAILABLE ON iPad
The Economist is also available on iPad. Simply search for The Economist in the App Store for iPad.
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Archived Reviews
8 of 25The economist app is the best one i have for any of my journals or periodicals, period!!! The audio is fantastic, the download is fast, so many thoughtful details work to enhance the experience. Congratulations
The selection of an article, to start, to pause, to rewind 15 seconds are not easy or possible. You need to create a playlist which takes too much time and it is messy if you move from one edition to another. It is not possible to see the text while you are driving. It is not a fire and forget type easy listening anymore. You need to hold it in your hand all the time to control what to do. They need to return back to previous version.
Take a fully functioning app and make it less user friendly and less functional? Remove the ability to download quickly, remove the section breaks in audio queue, and add levels of unnecessary options. Seriously, why would they do this? Can we go back to the last version?
I’ve been using the Economist app to listen to an audio version of the articles for a few years now, and it worked very well. This week, my Economist app mysteriously turned into the Legacy version of the economist app, and the audio player has been greatly changed for the worse. I can’t make any sense out of it and don’t even want to use it. Why was this change made? How is it an improvement? Please leave things alone that work. I’m going to download a new Ecomomist App, which I hope will work like my old app used to.
You can do a lot better
Previous version was so much easier and more practical to select articles for audio. Also controls now taken away e.g. to go to the next article from lock screen, iwatch, control center - have to go back into app then audio menu. Really awful user design - especially as the earlier version had none of these issues. Absurd
I’m deleting everything again. Why can’t we get a working app that can listen to the weekly edition on a iPhone 11pro max without it crashing. Hopefully the old Economist app still works but it was spotty also and probably why they switched. The worst pet is as soon as a track messes up and fails to play you can’t just delete and redownload. It’s not like I pay 250$ usd for the audio and print edition and would like to enjoy it.
For the price this is unacceptable!
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