I know I have been a little unfair to the iPad edition of the Times. Many of the things that I have moaned about over the past three months have turned out to be ‘user error’. However I have had this for about three months now and ,because of production problems, this has been free so I have had a great test of whole concept. This will soon come to an end and I will have to pay for the paper so the question is will I ?

As thing stand at the moment the answer is probably no. This is not because the product is sub standard but rather I feel it is now starting to miss the point. I find having a static document, with poor interactivity, very restrictive. I find I am using flipboard far more than reading the Time iPad edition.

So what does flipboard have that the Times doesn’t? Well, I choose the news feeds and other sources of information to meet my needs and tastes. The news is more up to date and relevant . Of course the people at the Times would argue that you are buying great journalism, and this is true, but find that is not enough anymore.

So will I renew? Not sure but if you has asked me three months ago then I would have undoubtedly said yes. Shows how things change very quickly.

Sent from my iPad