Poynter reporting:
A trendy new feature is starting to spread in iPhone news apps:
Automatic downloading of the latest content based on a user’s location.
News.me pioneered the approach last month with a feature nicknamed “Paperboy,”
which lets a user set her home location so the app can download the
latest stories whenever she heads out. Now Instapaper has incorporated a similar feature
that lets readers set up to 10 locations (home, work, gym, etc.) that
should trigger the app to download any newly saved articles.
Why is that useful? It ensures a user has the latest content on her
device before she gets on a subway, airplane or other places with no
connectivity. It also gets around Apple’s once-a-day limit on how often
apps can download new content “in the background” on a device. With this
approach, background downloading can happen multiple times as a user
travels.
Location-based downloading takes advantage of “geofencing” technology built into iOS since version 4.0.
http://blog.news.me/post/21643399885/introducing-paper-boy-automatically-download-your-news
News.me’s Paperboy feature lets a user
designate his home location, and updates the content automatically
whenever he leaves home.
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