The New Yorker

Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. · 3.86★ · 8,136 install proxy

consumer-chosen

Evidence

25.2% of all ratings are 1–2★ (unhappiness index 40/100)

What to build

Insufficient evidence to build this candidate: Sits on a platform surface the OS vendor controls.; No verified domain capability or entities were identified.; No explicit single-user, local, offline or export boundary was found.

Complaint themes

• Aggressive paywall

  Value is gated before users feel it; trust is destroyed at the worst moment.

  Desperately in need of improvement

  Most Frustrating App Ever

• Offline & connectivity

  The use case happens where connectivity is poor and the app simply fails.

  July 2022, forced app upgrade, dumped old saved issues

• Outdated interface

  Perceived age signals abandonment and makes migration easy to justify.

  Decent, but buggy and missing features + useless help line

• Crashes & stability

  Basic reliability is missing; this is the cheapest wedge to out-execute on.

  Well designed but with annoying tics

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