TAKEAWAY: The numbers tell the success story of the Gulf News Tablet: it has been downloaded 17,786 times since it was launched in March as one of the first newspaper apps curated as a special edition. Here is an example of how news apps need to provide for experimentation, constant upgrades and a high learning curve for those involved in their creation.
Success for a news app that pioneered with concept of editioning
Landing page for the Gulf News Tablet
For those who wish to update the news while reading the curated Tablet edition, there is a news feed that brings in headlines of top updated stories
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It was truly one of the first curated iPad news apps to appear. Today, the Gulf News Tablet, the iPad app edition of Dubai’s Gulf News, has been downloaded 17,786 times since it was launched in March, according to Apple statistics.
From the start, when Gulf NewsEditor-in-Chief Abdul Hamid Ahmad , invited me to join his newly appointed Tablet team, formed by editor Anupa Kurian and design director, Miguel Gomez, my first recommendation was that we create a special app edition for the Gulf News, and even went as far as to discuss calling it Gulf News Tablet, so that even the name would give it its own identify. Miguel and I had fun conceptualizing the logo for the Gulf News Tablet, saluting the past a little bit by using Old English style lettering for the word Tablet.
Today, as I read the story of Gulf News Tablet’s success, presented