Review: excellent, after a  second look
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2013
My wife likes to follow sports teams on USA Today, so I decided to add this app to my tablet. It downloads and installs without difficulty. The resulting newspaper doesn't look like the "dead tree version" but it's quite good, with almost all the content, graphics, and photos of the original paper edition. My wife and I are both quite pleased with the result. Photos and graphics seem to load more slowly than they do from other news sources, but that's a minor limitation.Two caveats - First, the USA Today "app version" is not quite as slick or well-implemented as the New York Times online newspaper. On the other hand, it's free, while the NYT subscription costs an appropriate yearly subscription (which, by the way, is still one of the great bargains available).  Second, my own first impression of the USA Today app was very negative. The first evening I looked at the app version of USA Today, it was terrible - almost no photos or graphics, layout more like a spreadsheet than a newspaper, limited content. Maybe I had stumbled upon an evening update, not the actual daily issue. Revisiting the online USA Today 24 hours later, I'm looking at a very nice news application with a number of interesting photos an occasional video, and fairly broad coverage of daily news in "quick read" format. It's almost better than the paper edition, in my opinion.View this app for a couple of days before passing judgment on it, and I think you'll like it a lot.