Murdoch Kills The Daily: What It Means For iPad Publishing

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The $130 Million dollar News Corp publishing experiment with the iPad comes to a screeching halt December 15th. The Daily debuted in February 2011 and never really grabbed a secure foothold with the Internet news crowd.

"You can’t create an entirely new brand and take it behind a paywall after 4 weeks, while limiting its footprint on the Internet, and then expect people to buy it."
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At the core of this, they want to get their news story text on the ipad, with some pictures? And that costs $130 million?
 
I tried it out when it was free upon release.

It was a decently-well-implemented magazine.

Then they put it behind a paywall where if you tried to share a story, it sent a link that required the app. Um, that's a load of crap. I could understand limiting the number of shares per day or something, but whenever I clicked on a link a friend posted on Facebook, I'd get a "hey, go see this article on the iPad app!" admonition. Uh, no. I'm at my computer, not on my iPad. And, of course, I had to be a subscriber to see the article on the app.

It really should have been implemented as a combo website/app, where the "full-featured" interface (in-depth videos, etc,) was only on the app, but that the website offered at least minimal functionality.
 
Pay for news? gimme a break.

I bet most ipad users don't even read the news. They just watch youtube and play games. Fuck the news, they say.
 
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