The Choate News Needs An App

The Choate News should create an iPhone application for its readers. In this day and age, there is an application for everything. A range of iPhone applications exists for communication, productivity, health, entertainment, and more. Almost all your needs are accounted for in the App Store. And so many apps exist for good reason: apps have many advantages which the Choate News should take advantage of. One advantage of having an app is simply having an app: it shows that the proponent is competent in today’s technology standards and it is good service to the reader. Apps are also convenient, regardless of their function—they are located on the device you can’t put down. And for the Choate News, a well designed application would be the best way to read the articles.

The Choate News needs to make an app to have an app. With the amount and variety of applications, having an app has become expected. An app would make the Choate News more professional: other news publishers such as the New York Times have done so. Similar to how Clare in Passing by Nella Larsen wears flamboyant clothes and changes her persona to become the center of attention, some motives for making an app (to appear professional) are superficial, yet necessary. Clare is once described as “wearing a superlatively simple cinnamon-brown frock which brought out all her vivid beauty…” (Larsen 175), which in conjunction to her persona make her intriguing to men of all races, classes, and intellects. An app would give the Choate News a comparable standing to app proponents like the New York Times. Readers should deserve the option to read the Choate News in paper, website, or application form, as they do with many other news publishers. For an adequate or not reason, taking that away from the readers is poor service.

Applications, due to their innate convenience, benefit the Choate News by benefiting its users. Solely available in paper and website form, the Choate news is like Wilson in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Wilson was a lower-class car repairer. To receive Wilson’s work,  one had to call him up and wait per his availability. Similarly, Choate News readers currently have to wait until Friday to access a paper copy of the news, or otherwise, are forced to go through the trouble of navigating to the website online. This can be a frustrate experience. Moreover, you can never experience pure Choate News inside another platform, like an internet browser. Without an app, the Choate News’ service is like Wilson’s: upon visiting Wilson, a character observes a “dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner” (Fitzgerald 1670). The news is a pastime for when there is no time. When you don't feel like looking the news online while curled up in bed, the app is your solution. The app brings you to exactly where you want to go without deviation or frustration. Gatsby of the The Great Gatsby is the anti-Wilson: he threw parties every week in which “…People were not invited — they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door” (Fitzgerald 1699) where he unconditionally offered them his hospitality as they partied freely. With an app, the Choate News becomes a Gatsby: numberless amounts of people can easily experience the wonders of pure Choate News at their own desire. And, similar to how Gatsby never sent out invitations for his parties, an app attracts readers autonomously of the Choate News members. With an app, there is no need for the user to actively remember—let alone navigate to—the Choate News website. The app is essentially a constant Choate News advertiser as it locates beside the user's favorite apps.

For matters such as the Choate News, applications would be more appealing than online or maybe even paper forms: the Choate News is not a major source for research, there are no time-sensitive subjects, nor do people usually need to save a copy; what I am saying is that it doesn't need to exist on the web. The Choate News provides interesting and fun stories that are all student-written: you read it with a little inquisitiveness and enjoyment. The mechanism for reading it should be the same way. You should enjoy vibrant photos and illustrations, an appealing interface, and control over their Choate News experience with the touch of a finger. It is also important to not only accommodate the attributes of the content, but of the audience of the Choate News. The audience is for the most part Choate students. With the exception of during community lunch (good strategy?), students will not actively search for a copy of the Choate News—online or in print. But if they had a Choate News app, they might open it up every once in a while on days other than Friday. You probably don't value the excellent news paper-layout found in print nor the mechanical-looking layout online as you might an attractive, familiar, simple touch-sensitive layout exclusive to an app.

The Choate News has repeatedly showed its ability to please us with its content. To please us more, the Choate News should offer the option to view their news in an app. Just as their layout and articles are professional, an app would make the Choate News professional in the technological and reader-service fields. It would better fit the nature of the Choate News than the website, but would also give readers the ability to view the news anytime and anywhere, unlike the paper-form. An app would be the most interesting and convenient way to read the Choate News. The Choate News would reap the benefits of a bigger and more frequently visiting audience.