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I must be doing something wrong.
My NYTimes loads in just a fraction over one second. Should it be much faster?
By the way, what ads at the bottom of the page?

Just saw my first ad. Not on the home page and as stated not obtrusive at all.

One of the things that will get sorted out as we all get used to having multiple ways to consume the same product is when we want a web app to read the NYT and when we want a native app to read the NYT. iPod touch users are probably more sensitive to this distinction since they really don't have access that is as ubiquitous as iPhone users whose TCO is much greater over time.

Or perhaps all the NYT app needs to please everyone is a preference setting: one page, two pages, all pages, op ed section, etc.

My NYT app crashes constantly. It's done so with 2.0, 2.01, and 2.02. It crashes after a few minutes of use - even after everything has downloaded and I am simply in the middle of reading an article.

It's got to be fixed.

Yup, I keep trying to use it, but it is slower than molasses and it crashes every article. I still primarily access NYT through NetNewsWire RSS feeds. You get the short, concise RSS title and syonpsis and download the article into Safari if you want to read the whole thing.
Jim

Something tells me this first attempt at adoption of contemporary technology isn't going to much for NYT. Their reason plummeting revenues don't necessarily stem from old-school paper focus, but content. I'd have to search long and hard to find a dozen people who actually have subscriptions, paper or electronic, to NYT. Why? Probably the lack of objective journalism in many sections of the publications, coupled with a sense of entitlement to print raging leftism.
This break from subscription revenue and embrace of a full digital version, albiet a buggy one, may help in reader media preference, but I doubt it will boost them anywhere back to where they were. Innovation can only do so much for a poor product.

This program crashes frequently, usually after just a few minutes of use. Except for that, it is a pretty good first try, especially for free.

At least they're trying. The Times site often froze up on Mobile Safari for me and locks up Safari on my Mac fairly regularly. Anything would be an improvement over that.

To me, the NYTimes iPhone app is a bad joke. The home page looks nice, but once you click an article, banner ads across the entire bottom of the screen reduce the actual reading space to an absurdly small size. Personally, I much prefer the mobile version of the New York Times web page. No photos, but no ads, no waiting for pages to load, and no restriction on how much of the screen is available for actual text.

The home page isn't centered, its displayed so far to the left its unreadable.

While I like the native NYT app - there's no way to email an article to someone. This is why I almost always just use the Safari-based NYT. In fact, I keep the icons side by side on my iPhone's home screen. The Native app is a backup for when my commuter train goes underground.

It seems like it has a caching problem to me. Yes, even when I have a fast connection it seems like the app is downloading forever.
And when a section, like the Technology section, has something on it that the iPhone can't display, it will simply never display that section again.
I take the NYC subway a lot, so it is nice to be able to read the NY Times in the tube, but I need a prefernce button to clear the app cache for a fresh download.

{quote}I'd have to search long and hard to find a dozen people who actually have subscriptions, paper or electronic, to NYT. Why? Probably the lack of objective journalism in many sections of the publications, coupled with a sense of entitlement to print raging leftism.{quote}

I don't think this is the correct forum for political opinions, but since none of the moderators have removed this, I might as well reply.

If you think the NYT is a leftist newspaper, you either haven't read it, or you are so far to the right that you don't recognize it for what it is: a conservative, bandwagon-following, establishment-favoring, pseudo-intellectual...well, you get the idea. Leftist? Ha! The Times fell in line with everyone else to support Bush (when he was popular), the other Bush (when he was popular) and Reagan (who was always popular). They play it so safe it borders on irresponsible.

Anyway, I politely ask Macworld to leave this reply up for as long as the original was, then moderate both to the recycle bin.

Sheesh.