iPad app now available for Bakersfield Californian replica edition
By The Bakersfield Californian
It's taken us awhile but a replica edition of The Bakersfield Californian is now available for the iPad.
And if we might say so, it looks pretty sweet.
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The Californian's weekday tabloid format is a good fit for the iPad.
Apple's trademark carousel makes it easy to find previous issues.
The iPad app features web-style tabbed navigation as well as one click access to specific sections.
Our weekday tabloid format is well suited for most computer monitors and is near perfect for larger tablets like the iPad.
We're not alone in sharing that enthusiasm. Shortly after learning Tuesday afternoon that Apple had finally released the app into the iTunes, we shared the good news with some of our readers who had been clamoring for an iPad-enabled version. One downloaded the app, then wrote us back a short time later:
"My compliments. Quick download with % DL indicator, always handy with slower connections. Great organization. Crisp text and graphics. I like how closely it mirrors the print version and the fact you can see the whole page. Call me old fashion(ed), but that's what I like about a newspaper, one glance and you can see everything. Good work!"
How's that for a first reaction? We couldn't pay for that kind of applause.
The app is free to download, and we'll give you a free taste of the content until mid-July, when we'll begin restricting access to paid subscribers.
Features include:
* A week's worth of archived editions sorted with Apple's trademark carousel.
* Keyword search.
* Various ways of navigating the content: Page by page, via dropdown tabbed navigation or film-strip style.
* Hotlinked urls or email addresses.
* Quick zoom: stories can be enlarged with one tap to zoom, two taps for a text-only web-style version.
Olive Software, which powers the replica edition we offer for desktop and laptop readers, created this app specifically for the iPad. Apple, as you may know, hasn't traditionally played well, or at all, with Flash software so while our Olive replica edition worked perfectly fine on Android tablets like the Samsung Galaxy, Olive's Flash-based tools were unusable on the iPad. However, when iPad has more than 90 percent of the tablet market, that's an issue we needed to address.
So, while that's one reason our first iPad app is hitting market a year after the tablet debuted, that's not necessarily a bad thing. We just got some research indicating there were about 1,000 iPad owners in the Bakersfield market. So, we're launching the market is still driven by early adopters and will grow as tablet prices fall and people migrate off laptops.
If you have an iPad, please give it a spin and let us know what you think. If you've been reading us on other tablets, let us know too.
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