If you count The Onion as one of your top sources of news (and laughter), then today is a happy day. The day the Onion Microfiche Headline Reader app hit the iPhone App Store.
I’ve only had the app for a short while, but it has already provided me with headlines I just couldn’t find in any other news app – like the one above.
Here’s the beginning of this new app’s App Store description:
You are clearly a busy person, otherwise you wouldn’t have such an important phone. How is a person like you supposed to take the time to take in the important news of yesterday that will give you a competitive edge in the marketplace.
The Onion has the solution.
And of course the app delivers in The Onion’s own inimitable style. You get ‘hard to find’ headlines, backed up by no stories at all. That’s right – the app just gives you a stream of satirical headlines, with no articles attached to any of them.
It’s clear that the app is using some state-of-the-art tech in order to serve up its news …
When you find a headline you feel like sharing or saving, you can mark it as a favorite, or share it via Twitter or Facebook. Oh, and the app also offers easy access to audio and video content from The Onion – like this heartwarming video on real, professional football players visiting the Detroit Lions …
You can find the Onion Microfiche Headline Reader in the App Store now, priced at $0.99.
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Tempting
Would kind of prefer to be able to access articles too though
The video link are handy to have within the app. I may just be an oddball, but I'm fine with the ;emperor's new clothe' approach to the headlines with no stories
The Onion's latest spoof: charging people for only headlines. Hilarious.
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