Flipboard’s Mike McCue on the Last 36 Hours, What’s Next and What's Coming Soon

They could then remove flipboard from the app store as it duplicates functionality :)

Does that sound feasible?

This is what killed my initial buzz for this thing. To be useful to me, a media consumption tool has to either provide a nice way to read complete articles or an efficient way to aggregate/filter large numbers of articles. Flipboard fails at the former by forcing a complete context switch half way through the article. It fails at the latter by trying to be the former.

Asking for Facebook and Twitter logins without any apparent need or explanation was also a deal breaker.

The excitement for this product was justified. The iPad reading experience is pretty fragmented and leaves a craving for some sort of universal reader like this, but Flipboard hasn't got it right.

http://ax.itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard/id358801284?mt=8

  Customer Reviews
  Will be great? by dlbdlb

  At present, not connecting to my Twitter and fb accounts.
  Problem with the instant popularity?

  Buggy by Chakri

  Current version is buggy. Can't login into FaceBook. 
  Every attempt throws an over the capacity exception.
  
  So Awesome! by katzilla349

  Refuses to add any of the content I attempt to add.
  Way Cool!

  And why is it that I can't copy and paste most of the
  text (and who knows what else)? I'm growing weary of
  digital media that doesn't leverage the advantages of
  being DIGITAL!

  Thanks for wasting my time with that one guys!