Guardian iPhone app debuts, subscription available to UK customers

I'm in the UK, but I also have a US iTunes account, so I just grabbed the free US version.

And if you are unfortunate enough to live in a country of which the name doesn't start with "United", then there is another option: Mobile Robot's "Guardian Reader". Free. Which just demonstrates that grabbing a CSS feed and displaying it is not THAT hard.

"Interesting model for The Guardian, but theirs is a big organization, and the app is probably just a line item somewhere in a gigantic budget."

Uhhh...what? Just by way of comparison, the News Corporation (you know, owner of the Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, Sky, Fox, etc.) LOST more than 10x the money that the Guardian Group made (pre-tax) in their best FY (2008). I'd wager that the News Corp loss (3.4 billion) in 2009 is bigger than the best 10 years of profitability for the Guardian Group, combined. In the global scheme of things, the Guardian/Observer is a very small fry organisation. The Guardian is, however, very agressive in the monetisation of their content, constantly searching for ways to provide access to that content as widely as they can without resorting to paywalls, etc. Indeed, in the UK, they are seen as the counterpoint to the News Corporation's efforts to shepherd all content behind paywalls.

The Guardian has a number of on-line access methods:
1. Completely free website. All of the content can be read via any browser.
2. Digital Edition. £99 per year. Exact reproduction of the print edition. Accessed via a normal web browser - is iPhone & iPad aware, so it adjusts its presentation accordingly.
3. iOS app £3.99 per year. Simple-to-use access to top stories plus other MM content.

I subscribe to the digital edition in place of the print edition - that comes in at about 20% of the (delivered) print price.

Apple reaches beyond its limit, being sold out a million products. Gadgets like this include diff apps, voice calls, text messaging, etc. And Gaurdian is one of them who just released a new app in an iPhone. Hope you will feature more of the newest and popular games.

@ iGlad

We'll be able to comment from our iPhone or iPod touch "in a few months" according to the help page inside the App.

`I just subscribed form manchester Uk so am i able to leave comments or do i need to use the website for that?

I subscribed this afternoon from Canada.