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Why The Daily failed

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The Daily's biggest competing app was the web browser. Thousands of websites with better information, accessible quickly and for free.

That's not to say a paid news magazine is not viable, but if you are going to start one, you need to know what you are competing against.

A fast, presentable application with unique focused content is going to be key in the future. It seems The Daily was the polar opposite of that - trying to put an old world concept on a new world device.

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