In my previous post, I mentioned that the Quartz app experience so closely apes the experience of using chat apps that it would make more sense just to roll this functionality into a chat app like WhatsApp.
I wasn’t being entirely fair to the Quartz app – it aggregates content from multiple sites more than I initially thought, meaning the app is more of a full news digest than just a digest of Quartz’s news. The result is that it has much longer legs as a standalone news experience than just as a route into the Quartz site – though one wonders if app sponsorship will let them monetise this sufficiently.