Aftermuch speculative rumor , Facebook this morning announced the arrival of a newfangled standalone iPhone app calledPaper .
https://gizmodo.com/rumor-facebook-could-launch-a-flipboard-like-reader-th-1501734936
uncommitted February 3rd on iOS , it lookslike it ’ll be rather more than just a plain old meter reading app . Rather , it look to provide most of the content that people use Facebook for Clarence Day - to - 24-hour interval , but in a attractively sleek bundle .
leave how your news feed currently looks . Paper get the information reserve within it and turns it into a series of horizontally scrolling sieve . It also boast a rich WYSIWYG editor — think of something a piece like the interface of Medium — for posting , as well as a news read app that looks , unsurprisingly , like Flipboard .
After a hands - on , Verge explainsthat navigation within the app is practically all gesture - drive . The UI , as well as being tight , also sounds pleasurably aim - rich : wide photos will pan as you move your phone , object pleasantly fade in and out , and news stories appear like chirrup - flair card .
section in Paper , including your tidings provender and the new reader , are build around a primary cover photo , with a small selection of cards at the bottom to shop through , one at a time . It sounds like Facebook is deliberately trying to slacken down your consumption a petty , and that might be no unsound matter .
In the news reader , swiping into a calling card takes you to the source internet site , which means it wo n’t work offline . Also , there ’s no choice to add specific sites to your account like you would using RSS provender : instead , Facebook has a new team of content specialist who will peck out content that it thinks you ’ll be concerned in . That wo n’t be to everyone ’s gustatory perception , but it might prove useful for those who do n’t already tight curate their incoming on-line intelligence .
All - in , it vocalize like Facebook may have created a beautiful standalone app that could in reality assume its main app for a whole hatful of masses . We ’ll find out if that ’s the cause in February . [ Facebook , Verge ]
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