After only six months, Yahoo announced that it has officially shuttered Livestand, its news aggregating app for the iPad.
“While we received great feedback on Livestand’s design and it earned a 4-star rating in the App Store, we committed ourselves to continuously measure and scrutinize what’s working and what isn’t,” explains the Yahoo blog.
“What that basically means is that Livestand must not have been getting enough downloads, holding the interest of users, or competing with competitors like Flipboard well enough,” reports Digital Trends. “The company points to Yahoo Axis as an example of the new direction it’s headed in. Axis is a visual ‘search browser’ — a plug-in for desktop browsers like Chrome and a standalone iOS app.”
Yahoo expects future apps from Livestand, despite its cancellation. “The company claims it is ‘pivoting to a mobile-products-first development model,’ which will produce more mobile products like Axis,” explains the post. “Innovating in mobile is now one of, ‘if not THE biggest,’ priority for Yahoo.”
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