The AP Mobile iPhone app has a cool feature to alert you for important breaking news. Unfortunately, they generally use it for unimportant news. At 4:46am Pacific Time, the AP decided I needed to know that the Olympic Committee approved golf as an event in the 2016 Olympics. In other words, the AP thinks I can’t wait even a couple hours until I wake up to find this out. Even if I was a golfer hoping to enter the Olympics in golf in 7 years and I’d been hoping this day would come all my life, I could have waited until I woke up to learn about this news.
Agreed! And while on the subject of iPhone apps, the new Netnewswire client sucks!
Yeah, NetNewsWire has problems. It’s really slow and has some navigation bugs. But I like that it’s a client for Google Reader instead of NewsGator’s online service.