NYT occasionally uses fancy interactive articles. They have games, and other things that are better on the app. The NYT app is actually very good
NYT occasionally uses fancy interactive articles. They have games, and other things that are better on the app. The NYT app is actually very good
For games I agree that an app makes sense (though I think at least the games I used to play were in a separate nyt games app). For interactive articles, I've not seen anything I couldn't use fine in my browser, but in theory I wouldn't mind covering up the interactive part with a "Open in the app for a better experience" button (similar to what YouTube does on the video portion of the page). Where I encounter this though is in standard, text-heavy articles that maybe include a photo or two.
I assume the reason they are pushing me to the app is that it benefits them not me (longer dwell times, maybe easier tracking for behavior/ads), and that is precisely why I want to stay in the browser. Covering up a good portion of the article and preventing me from scrolling until I click the tiny link to decline is hostile and is the only thing degrading the experience on the website for most articles I read.
Every time I end up trying an app for things like this, I end up missing tabs.
There is no reason they can’t have a native tab navigator. It kills me that Google maps app doesn’t have tabs.