Smart News app: A better understanding
Newspapers have been around for an extended amount of time, yet the introduction of the internet changed them. People no longer have to read printed publications, but the use of the internet to access apps like the SmartNews.
Smart News was co-founded by Ken Suzuki, who happens to be the current CEO of the SmartNews Incorporated. SmartNews is a free newsreader app that lets you browse a variety of stories from a variety of top publishers like NBC News, TIME and Reuters that are specifically discussing topics that you care about without going to the publisher’s website.
The app was launched in December 2012 in Japan and has received multiple “App of the Year Awards.”
Some people say the app is the greatest in the world, yet like everything in life, it has its strengths and weaknesses. A user of this app, Anthony Jackson, provided his insight on those possible strengths and weaknesses.
“A strength of the Smart News app is that it has more categories or topics like Technology, American Military, and more to choose from than a newspaper,” Jackson said.
A newspaper has ten headlines that contain only a small amount of articles, while the Smart News app grants its users access to over millions of articles every day.
Since nothing in the world is perfect, the Smart News app has a weakness that all apps and most electronics have in the world. Also, the news on the internet or an app doesn’t remove the bias that can be found in articles.
The app can malfunction, causing its user a ton of problems that lead to them attempting to reload the app or uninstall if necessary. In the review section for the app, people have mentioned there pages being garbled when trying to save or experience pop-ads that could bring in a virus.
The Smart News app isn’t perfect; it has articles that could be considered “fake news” or bias the same as in newspapers, but with time it can become better.
We can fight a virus, and we can print the truth. For every weakness has the possibility of being turned into strength to better oneself. Although smart apps and newsworthy apps have their strengths and weaknesses, the demise of printed news publications is inevitable.
