• TechCrunch, Wednesday, February 2, 2011 2:30 PM

Meanwhile, Erick Schonfeld writes about The Daily's competition: News.me, an iPad news app the New York Times is developing. He critiques an early version he's been "playing around with."

Biggest difference between the two news apps: Unlike the News Corp. version, News.Me is not a daily paper with original content. Instead, it's "a social news reading app that presents the news that the people you follow on Twitter are reading." Presumably the Times trusts that folks are tweeting enough of its stories that it doesn't have to reinvent the wheel.

At any rate, Schonfeld's issues with the not-yet-ready-for-prime-time version of News.me include its price: "I think charging a subscription for what is essentially Web content will be a tough sell," he writes. He'd also like to see content filtered by topic.

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