Flipboard, Once-Hot News Reader App, Flounders Amid Competition

I found Flipboard always be a nice app to show what a cool device it runs on. Other than that it had major flaws which were never fixed or only after a very long time of not listening to user complaints.

- No easy way of using RSS/ATOM feeds. I know they can be added, but last time I checked the way to do this was counter-intuitive.

- Read articles are not marked as such. Therefore they block the view on not yet read articles.

- For a long time no web interface.

There was probably more I did not like, but forgot. Finding the app as part of the undeletable junk on a Samsung device did not exactly create cosy feelings on my side either.

Flipboard bought Zite a while back and has been pushing people to migrate their data. Personally, the Flipboard UI isn't as friendly as Zite's, so I'll continue using Zite until it is discontinued. After that, I'll just continue using Feedly with RSS because the above products were more for discoverability.