The Wall Street Journal.

This could be five stars, but there are some annoying feature inconsistencies. Primarily, what bothers me is the gap between what the stock watchlist is and what it could be. Web: You create watchlists and can include cost basis and holding information. iPhone: You can just create a watchlist, not linked to the web watchlist at all. iPad: No watchlist or market data section to be found. Barons/Marketwatch - despite being under the same umbrella, the watchlists here are completely unlinked from W

Compared to NYT app the WSJ app seems like an amateur attempt. It is slow, uses a ton of bandwidth, and hard to navigate.

The app is functional and navigation is intuitive. Two glaring issues persist though. One is the stock ticker does not update from futures to actual down jones average after market opens. I have to reboot the app to refresh. Second is the slow loading of ads make the page jump as ads load.

UPDATE: To be fair, looks like they fixed a lot of these issues. Much improved. Thanks for listening to your readers and thanks developers. The prior iPad app was one of the best iPad apps available. What to do next? Bloody ruin it by replacing something fantastic with a complete, unusable piece of garbage. Who made this decision? Clearly someone at WSJ that doesn’t use the iPad app…they must read comic books or something. I am so disappointed. The new app is unusable. Like why do this? I’ve be