Very few people seem to want a dedicated news app, and while my team poured their heart and soul into building what I think was one of the two or three best news app experiences ever, we couldn’t get traction. We got exceptional reviews, great press, featured by Apple, and tons of glorious feedback from users — but we didn’t have breakout success. Neither did Circa, Zite, Trov, or Pulse. Some readers that are part of big companies are still chugging along, like Facebook’s Paper and Yahoo News Digest, but even those well-constructed products are solid but not breakout hits.
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