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Flipboard vs SmartNews
October 03, 2024 | Author: Adam Levine
12★
Flipboard is your Personal Magazine. It's a single place to discover, collect and share the news you care about. Add your favorite social networks, publications and blogs to stay connected to the topics and people closest to you.
4★
SmartNews is the fastest, most efficient way to get all your news now. Your news in one minute. Zero loading time, a beautiful interface.
Flipboard and SmartNews are, in many ways, the news-reading equivalent of Vogon poetry and the Heart of Gold's Infinite Improbability Drive—both fascinating, both slightly bewildering and both offering experiences that could range from delightful to downright perplexing, depending on your mood and whether or not you’ve had enough tea.
Flipboard, for instance, would be what happens if someone decided that the dull, utilitarian act of getting informed should be more like flipping through a glossy magazine that a well-dressed alien interior decorator might leave on their coffee table. It’s all about creating *your* news—arranging stories into little collections based on your interests, all while looking terribly stylish. Imagine your brain saying, "I want to read about space travel, Scandinavian architecture and the latest political scandals," and Flipboard replying, "Of course, darling, let’s do it in the most fashionable manner possible." It’s less about what the world thinks you should know and more about what you *want* to know, preferably with a lot of attractive imagery.
On the other hand, SmartNews seems to have been designed by an entity that once observed a group of time-pressed intergalactic hitchhikers and thought, “Let’s make sure these beings can consume every relevant headline in the universe before they finish their Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.” It's algorithm-driven, which is a fancy way of saying it knows what’s trending, what you’d like and what everyone else is losing their minds over at any given nanosecond. SmartNews doesn't care if your news experience resembles a curated coffee-table book—it’s about getting information into your head before the next improbability event occurs.
While Flipboard is busy creating a serene magazine for your mind, SmartNews is urgently delivering updates, making sure you don’t miss that one piece of news that, according to its algorithms, could potentially alter your fate—or at least your dinner conversation. If Flipboard is the relaxing afternoon of lounging with a perfectly crafted cocktail, SmartNews is the caffeine-fueled dash for relevant facts, algorithmically approved and neatly packaged. Together, they cover the whole spectrum of modern news consumption: from leisurely, customized perusal to an efficient and somewhat frantic scrolling of what matters right now.
See also: Top 10 News Readers
Flipboard, for instance, would be what happens if someone decided that the dull, utilitarian act of getting informed should be more like flipping through a glossy magazine that a well-dressed alien interior decorator might leave on their coffee table. It’s all about creating *your* news—arranging stories into little collections based on your interests, all while looking terribly stylish. Imagine your brain saying, "I want to read about space travel, Scandinavian architecture and the latest political scandals," and Flipboard replying, "Of course, darling, let’s do it in the most fashionable manner possible." It’s less about what the world thinks you should know and more about what you *want* to know, preferably with a lot of attractive imagery.
On the other hand, SmartNews seems to have been designed by an entity that once observed a group of time-pressed intergalactic hitchhikers and thought, “Let’s make sure these beings can consume every relevant headline in the universe before they finish their Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.” It's algorithm-driven, which is a fancy way of saying it knows what’s trending, what you’d like and what everyone else is losing their minds over at any given nanosecond. SmartNews doesn't care if your news experience resembles a curated coffee-table book—it’s about getting information into your head before the next improbability event occurs.
While Flipboard is busy creating a serene magazine for your mind, SmartNews is urgently delivering updates, making sure you don’t miss that one piece of news that, according to its algorithms, could potentially alter your fate—or at least your dinner conversation. If Flipboard is the relaxing afternoon of lounging with a perfectly crafted cocktail, SmartNews is the caffeine-fueled dash for relevant facts, algorithmically approved and neatly packaged. Together, they cover the whole spectrum of modern news consumption: from leisurely, customized perusal to an efficient and somewhat frantic scrolling of what matters right now.
See also: Top 10 News Readers
