Pulse lets you subscribe to up to 20 RSS feeds, and presents new articles as a series of tiles using photos from the articles. You can also share articles you’ve read on Pulse via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter. Pulse also comes preloaded with some suggested news feeds including content from The New York Times. Pulse is available for $3.99 in the App Store.
Pulse Drop
Pulse reappears
After receiving the take down request, Apple removed Pulse from the App Store by late Tuesday, according to a variety of reports. However, at the time of this writing, Pulse was back in the App Store and available for purchase. It’s not clear why the Pulse was reinstated, and even the Times Company was baffled by its return.
“We think it has been reinstated by error, and we have asked Apple for an explanation,” Robert Christie, a spokesman for the Times Company told The New York Times’ technology columnist Brad Stone .
All Things D is reporting that Pulse was reinstated because Alphonso Labs submitted a new version of Pulse that did not come preloaded with content from the Times or the Globe. It’s not clear, however, whether that change will be enough to satisfy the Times Company’s lawyers. The New York Times Company did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but I will update this post with a response when available.
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