The Daily, the iPad based digital newspaper from News Corp. is closing. I agree with many commentators who observe that the closure has more to do with content and execution than the platform. It was a mainstream media product in the wrong place. News on platforms like the iPad should come from a completely different place.
Rupert Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff gets to the point:
Many business model reasons for why Daily died, but, let’s not forget, it was a dopey, tone-deaf, forgettable product