Clicky

Now you too can access the service you've been paying for but only the yanks have had access to for the last four months...

Jon

Wouldn't the American version be ad-funded, like the website??

Crazy that it has taken so long to get approved.

Sorry, should have mentioned - the fact it hasn't been approved until now has nothing to do with Apple. It was approved by Apple and was available on the App Store for the US launch of the iPad back in, what, March? Between the US iPad launch and the UK iPad launch, 'a third party' complained to the regulators and the BBC Trust that the BBC putting it's free app up in the UK would represent unfair competition to other vendors of news apps in the UK. So the BBC trust withdrew the app from certification for the UK store and it's taken until now for them to figure out that people could download whatever sodding news apps they like and if the others can't stand a bit of competition that's their own lookout.

Anyone care to guess who that third party was? It's not public but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the words 'News' and 'International' didn't figure in their name somewhere.

Jon

Possibly they are worried that their pay wall will not generate enough money so want to stifle any competition so that people have to buy the news from Murdoch.

That's what I was thinking as soon as I read ''a third party'' in your post