The Courier-Mail‪.‬ 4+

The news content is fine if you can work out how to get to it but the most annoying thing is that it automatically jumps from one page to another while in the middle of reading a story on another page. I cannot find a reason why this occurs unless it is programmed to do it. Whenever this occurs there is generally an advertisement for Harvey Norman involved - I am sick of seeing the grinning woman on this Ad every time this problem occurs. If this problem is not rectified then I will cancel my subscription to this newspaper as it is more annoying than the news agent who couldn't follow simple instruction - the reason why I swapped to the Ap in the first place.

This is a very fragile app. Sneeze and it freezes. Fail to sing pretty songs to it and it refuses to load. That's just the access to it. I think they may have engaged the year 10 work experience student to edit the online version. Aside from the spelling errors and the failure of the photos to load, there's the word processing errors (lines just stop, mid-sentence) and the grammatical mistakes. Then, of course, there is the fact that the mid-article links to other articles don't work: this is irritating because, aside from the lack of functionality, the links are in the same font as everything else, so before you realise it is a non-functioning link, you have spent a moment trying to figure out why the sentence makes no sense. And since I've paid $7.49 for a month's subscription (well, a month less the 5 days when it has failed to load) I am unsure why I have to put up with advertisements (that said, they only seem to have 1 advertiser, Defence Recruitment I think - like the digital radio station where the only advertiser is "Kimmy's Dad" selling Crimsafe). All of that said, the sudoku and the crosswork (little apps within the app) both seem to work. Someone else must have designed them. Maybe the first year uni work experience student.

I have my preferences set, but the app still opens on to news I have no interest in. Can you really charge people good money for an app that functions poorly? Why does the app keep changing pages in the newspaper when I switch from one app to another on my iPad. I brought this up about two years ago and it’s still an issue. Why can’t you fix it? Why can’t the app have a single edit button and then you choose which newspapers you want to delete in the library rather than a delete button on each newspaper. If you don’t delete newspapers daily after reading them then you are in a big time wasting situation trying to delete each previous newspaper attempting to precisely tap with your finger the very tiny rubbish bin icon in the bottom right of the newspaper icon. If you don’t tap that bin icon exactly then the newspaper launches. It is the perfect time wasting exercise.