We fought amongst ourselves, and people left the company. There was untold expense of spirit. I hated every moment of our experiment with apps, because it tried to impose something closed, old, and printlike on something open, new, and digital.....Jason Pontin editor in chief and publisher of Technology Review in Why Publishers Don't Like Apps
I'm generally less fond of the walled garden of publication apps than I am of plain old web sites (POWS), even on such mobile devices as tablets. Apps tend to be less linky and less friendly with such nifty programs as Instapaper.
At the same time, I have to say that I've become quite fond of reading the digital edition of the print Tribune on my iPad.