Quartz’s new iOS app: When news looks like a text message

Quartz’s iOS app looks at a completely new way of exploring news.
News apps are a dime a dozen in the appy world – from the magazine-like Flipboard to the tab-laden News Republic to the rather basic website-like RSS readers. And given the fact that news is a pretty one-way activity – you see, you read – you would have thought that most avenues of innovation as far as design went, had by now been exhausted. Well, a new app called Quartz has added a new spin to the whole n