Electronic Nikkei Starts - 日経電子版始まる

今日から日経新聞の有料電子版配信が始まった。早速その使い勝手を探ってみた。早朝は特にストレスもなくアクセスできていたが、画面構成などは日経NET譲りとでもいうのか、斬新さもないし、ゴチャゴチャで機能的とは言い難い。なぜそうまで辛口なのかと言うと、ちょうどiTouchでル・モンドの無料アプリを使い始めたところで、もちろん同列比較の対象ではないだろうが、合理性についての思想の差が歴然だ。
さらに悪いことに、昼間になると「混雑」で中身が読めなくなった。大体ログイン画面にすらアクセスできないというのでは、有料会員を馬鹿にしているということだ。但しずっとログイン状態にしてあれば、朝刊・夕刊の頁は読めているので、WEB版に来客が殺到しているということになるのだろう。ここはバックボーンについての配慮不足か。




Nikkei Newspaper started the paid subscription of web news today, and I tried to check its feasibility. In the early morning, everything was smooth with no stress, although the page seemed basically followed their preceding Nikkei NET with no new functional design nor appeal. The reason why I am so critical is because I just happened to start using Le Monde application on my iTouch, and it may not be the exact counterpart for comparison, but the distance between the two regarding the phylosophy on functionality was obvious and large.
To make the situation worse, toward noon, it became impossible to read the news content because of busy traffic. It is totally stupid for them to fail enabling the paid subscribers to access to their log in page to begin with. If you are lucky keeping your machine logged in earlier in the day, the pages for the copy of printed versions were accessible, and it probably means that a bulk of free guests run to the web version pages. A more careful preparation on the backbone would have been considered.