Who actually asked for a “magazine-like” interface?

From Engadget’s coverage of today’s announcement of The Daily:

The team behind the new-age zine showed off plenty of that technology, including a magazine-like reading interface, letting you flip through pages or access a “carousel,” that gives you a higher-level view of the pages for easy, virtual flipping.

I know it’s not always wise to slag off on products you haven’t used yet, but to me all I’ve seen from The Daily (and most iPad magazines for that matter) translates to:

“We’ve added everything shiny and unnecessary we could to obscure the fact that we’ve just shoddily migrated our old content, interactions and business models to a new distribution platform”

Call me old fashioned, but I find the recently announced Readability service far more ground-breaking (and appealing) than another iPad Flash app magazine that can also take my money repeatedly.