The New York Times's Lackluster, Steve-Jobs-Disapproved iPad App: It's Amazon's Fault

Ryan Tate over at Valleywag writes that Apple's Steve Jobs has been "shunning" the New York Times iPad app. With any other app, this would be such unimportant gossip that not even the most Apple-crazy fan site would bother writing about it. But Jobs positioned the iPad as a savior of periodicals, and put the Grey Lady right up front. Ads feature the iPad's browser landed on the Times's site, and Jobs even brought a Times executive on stage when he introduced the tablet.

Yet, the NYTimes iPad...