Seattle Times Mobile

The Seattle Times · 4.58★ · 25,553 install proxy

consumer-chosen

Evidence

70.0% of all ratings are 1–2★ (unhappiness index 90/100)

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.

  Good paper; mediocre app

  Hard to cancel subscription

• Performance

  Perceived performance is a quality bar the incumbent has stopped meeting.

  No longer a free download, false advertising

  Phone overheats on this app

• Outdated interface

  Perceived age signals abandonment and makes migration easy to justify.

  App is very outdated

  Updated review: excellent journalism, ads awful

• Price barrier

  Users want the outcome but reject the price or the pricing model.

  Overpriced

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