Journal Le Monde 12+

Although the initial purchase price is a little high for one free edition, the ease of use and many alternate ways to read the articles make this a great way to read a newspaper. For those complaining about the cost of the each edition have a look at how much the Financial Times charges. I think $0.99 for a paper is reasonable.

It's hard to imagine anything being worse than this. The app runs on both iPad and iPhone, but you have to buy each edition twice, once for each device. When you buy an edition, the immediate response is "an error has occurred, please try again later." At first, you could just tap the edition again and it would download. Now the error seems to be permanent. Oh, I'm sure the problem will be fixed in a week or two, but I wanted to read today's news TODAY!

The problems don't end there.

I purchased both the May 1 edition and the May 2 edition, only to discover that they were identical and both dated May 2 in the text.

When you go to a new page, it takes forever to display. You have plenty of time to go get a fresh cup of coffee between pages. This also happens when you resize a page or move to a different article. Oh, it also refreshes the page at random times, for no apparent reason. You'll be reading along, and the whole screen will blur-out and the excruciatingly slow display starts all over again ... Kerchunk, kerchunk, kerchunk ... Time to go wash the car or mow the lawn.

If that weren't enough, the app fails completely at random times. You'll be reading along, and whoosh ... Good bye! The app is just gone.

So who did win that presidential election anyway? If this app were my only source of information, I'm sure I'd never find out.

Keep in mind that you have to pay for each issue you want to read, which I did for a while. Not only I takes ages to download but most of the time you can't read the bloody paper as the app won't work at all. Now I'll have to delete the app and lose all the issues I've purchased. I'm French btw but I have no trouble to say that this app is a real shame. Le Monde, you should fire those who've created it, your image is at stake. Amateurs.

Update: I gave it another try today...bug again & another .99 p wasted. What's wrong with you people at Le Monde, aren't you just a bunch of "inutiles". Shame on you.