Tech: Limp Pulse: New York Times Company screws with awesome iPad app
- The Pulse app is better than the NYT app. There, we said it. The New York Times didn’t put all of this money and time into an iPad app to see their hard work upstaged by a couple of upstarts. Which is why the Times’ lawyers sent Apple an angry letter asking them to pull the Pulse app – which Steve Jobs had big-upped just yesterday – because of the way it uses their RSS feeds. Apple took it down, and now it’s back up. But these guys have had a pretty miraculous ride. Some quick tidbits on that ride:
- four number of weeks the app was developed by two Stanford students
- #1 the app’s peak on the “paid apps” chart since its fairly recent release
- yes the app has gotten a big wet kiss of a profile in the Times already source