The Onion – Review
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By: The Onion
Version #: 1.0.0
Date Released: 2010-03-25
Developer: The Onion
Price: 0.00
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If you’ve ever watched news parodies on television such as The Daily Show or Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live, then you’ll likely understand what The Onion is about. It’s a satire newspaper and the company has finally released its own newsreader for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Since the app is free, it comes with a big honking ad for Jack Link’s in the center of the splash page as well as a banner ad in the news. That’s fine by me. The company employees have to eat somehow and Jack Link’s beats white bread and onions.
As a newsreader, the app is pretty simple. There is a home page that shows their "top news stories" based on two tabs that either show most recent or most popular. You can tap different sub-taps along the top for audio, video, images or all. There is also a button there for refreshing the "news".
Along the bottom, there is the Home button, the Search button (for finding articles on particular topics), Saved Content (for any article you may wish to bookmark and Info about the application or company. When you go to a particular article, you may save it to view later in Saved Content or share it via E-mail, Facebook or Twitter.
Admittedly, I’ve always been kind of lukewarm about the Onion. I feel they take a one-note joke from the headline and drag it out with the article. However, there are others who appreciate this sort of humor who would undoubtedly appreciate this program.
Quick Take
Value:Medium.
Would I Buy Again:For free? Probably, but only based on the name value.
Learning Curve:Low.
Who Is It For:Those that like news satire.
What I Like:Easy to use. Good layout.
What I Don't Like:Not into the articles themselves, but that's just my tastes.
Final Statement:New headline: "Onion iPhone Newsreader Exhibits Mind-Control Capabilities".
This is the official iPhone/iPod Touch application of The Onion, America's Finest News Source. It is the last bastion of unbiased, reliable, and definitive news in a world dominated by superficiality, mediocrity, and non-Onion news outlets.
What's inside:
* Get the latest from The Onion with nearly all the content you've come to depend on for your survival including news, sports, American Voices, Statshots, Infographics, columns, and more
* See what's most popular on The Onion's website RIGHT NOW
* Watch the latest Peabody Award-winning videos from the Onion News Network
* Listen to award-winning audio reports from the Onion Radio News
* Search the full web archive
* Save up to 25 items for permanent, offline access
* Share your favorites via Twitter, Facebook, and e-mail
The Onion was founded in 1756, when Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel, an immigrant tuber-farmer from Prussia, shrewdly bartered a sack of yams for a second-hand printing press and named his fledgling newspaper The Mercantile Onion after the only words of English that he knew. Today, The Onion misinforms more than 7 million readers in print and online each month. Become number 7,000,001. Download this app.
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