Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

892.757 - 912.138 Nilay Patel

But those people right now get the benefit of Substack's designers and app developers and the icons on your phone, and it gets updates, and the local newspaper has none of those benefits, right? If they put out an app... we can all just close our eyes and imagine what the local newspaper app looks like. And then there's this secondary problem of, well, they're all just icons on your phone.