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The Daily PollAMERICAN ROCK BAND Aerosmith have announced their retirement from touring after the band said it was “not possible” for frontman Steven Tyler to fully recover from a vocal cord injury.
In a statement, the band described Tyler’s voice as an “instrument like no other” and said that Tyler has spent months “tirelessly working on getting his voice to where it was before his injury”.
The band cancelled dates on their farewell tour, Peace Out, last September because Tyler was receiving “ongoing care” for damage to his vocal cords and a fractured larynx.
Known for songs such as I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing, the band said the decision to retire from touring is a “heartbreaking but necessary” one.
With the band announcing their retirement from touring, we want to know: Do you like Aerosmith?
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I hate when I’m redirected to an app when I open a link, it’s so annoying.
+1
Sometimes I go back into my browser later on and the last thing opened was a redirect to the Journal app and it redirects me again.
DOES MY HEAD IN!
Yes.
Choose your words wisely when posting people :)
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Hmmm, interesting.
When I reopen my browser having looked at an article on thejournal.ie earlier I’m redirected to the Play Store to download the Journal app. Journal developers – I DON’T WANT your app, stop hijacking my f*cking browser. It’s the most obnoxious use of technology I know on any Irish site.
Forgot that happens too on my phone Cpm. How vexing. I’m terribly vexed.
Now I’m vexed too, DigitalA.
But seriously, Journal, turn it off. please, for the love of God stop doing this. I do visit the site less as a result of it so it’s not having the desired effect, it’s not increasing traffic. HTML5 has more than enough capabilities for a news site. I had your app installed a year or two ago and it was nothing short of shite. I won’t be reinstalling it, so stop trying to force it on me.
Stop forcing the app on us. Read the reviews online from people that download the app just to give it a one star.
Congratulations… It’s a great news site… Pity about all the desperate, say an outrageous comment just for attention trolls that have taken over these last few months tho… A more ruthless approach to banning these idiots needs to be taken as they have the comments ruined,
Hear hear.
Yes ban everyone. Round people up and send them off to wherever Paul deems fit. History has shown that to work.
Wonder if Google will notice the massive battery drain when the app is open?
The journal app, the score app, adverts.is are all a nightmare! They keep directing you to Google Play from your web browser and stop you from actually reading the article you wanted… I’m getting sick of it.
I find it very difficult to understand why Distilled Media (parent company of all of the above plus Daft and their other property sites and Boards.ie) haven’t sorted this problem yet.
I have TheJournal app, use it regularly and find it great. However if I’m using the Facebook app and click a link to a TheJournal article, I often just want to glance at the article and then go straight back to looking at Facebook. Facebook’s built in browser viewing the mobile version of TheJournal website is perfectly adequate for this. I don’t necessarily want to be directed to the app. By all means display a button to give me the option to open the article in the app, but don’t do it automatically.
It’s even worse when I click on a link to The Score or Daft and get redirected to the app store. If I wanted to use the app to look the these articles, I’d already have it on my phone. To add insult to injury, when I return to the Facebook app I’m then shown a link to open the article in Facebook’s browser. That’s the exact opposite of what I want!
Also, how come if I want to read a The Daily Edge article, it redirects to TheJournal app, rather than the The Daily Edge’s own app which I also have? Seems very inconsistent. If The Daily Edge redirects to TheJournal app, why doesn’t The Score?
It’s also worth noting that Business ETC doesn’t have its own app at all.
I hate being old, while I’m still relatively young.
“the link directs you to the relevant content in the app itself, instead of opening it up on your mobile browser”
Not all that different from the current behavior so… constantly loading Google Play to get me to install the app.
hooray??
This is a terrible idea.
I always thought that redirection to the application on mobile devices was a bug from whoever designed The Journal and Adverts.ie.
That said, Google would probably have an option to switch this off it were ever rolled out fully.
Carat a battery life anayzler app, rates TheJournal.ie app as one of the worst offenders for battery drain along with the daily mail app. No idea why though.
Nice hopefully (there they’re their) is a few quid in it for thejournal staff?
The app is as supported. Extremely annoying. This will mean they’ll make more money.
Personally I’d buy an ad free app
You couldn’t just have used the correct form of there Stephen?
Great to see our beloved TheJournal.ie being mentioned in the same breath as The Huffington Post.
Hopefully, this Irish e newspaper can become equally as successful as the latter on a global stage. Please keep it open to all, as opposed to adopting a subscription model. And good luck with the new Google association in building a paywall to sustain a long-term business for the shareholders, employees.
That’s my Dragons Den pitch fcuked now!!!!;
So The Journal probably getting paid by Google now as well as Apple?
Yes, how dare they try and bring in revenue off all the free content they provide?
Main reason I dont use the journal on my phone is because of the redirect to the app
Great news ‘The Journal’.
Hope the trials pan out. (IPhobe I am afraid so can’t see how it will work, but congrats on being chosen).
There’s still a court case ongoing and until the case is finished you can’t post comments in relation to it. A note has been added to the end of the article.
You might make your point better if you responded to the original comment like I have instead of posting a separate comment apropos of nothing unless people have noticed the other comment.
It was originally a reply but the comment I was replying to has since been deleted hence why this is now a stand alone.
Why would they trial something like this using a rag like thejournal?
Well done to thejournal.ie on this recognition of their quality of internet news distribution.
Others commenting on this article seem to have missed the point that what Google and TheJournal are trialling is an OPTION to open the article in the app, not an automatic redirect. You can still click the regular link to open the article in the Chrome browser. This is right way of going about things and is very different to the incredibly annoying automatic redirect to the app or the Google Play Store/App Store. See my other comment for more on that annoyance.
have a windows phone myself great for browsing the journal no app just pin the website to the home screen duckin feadly
I like that feature. Well done.
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