Is Wired's App Really the Future of Magazines?

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 27, 2010 @11:51AM from the at-least-bandwidth-is-free dept.

MBCook writes "Interfacelab has put up a review of Wired's new iPad app, and declared, 'The only real differentiation between the Wired application and a [1990s] multimedia CD-ROM is the delivery mechanism.' While providing little interactivity other than a fancy page-flip, the application is made of XML and images, including two for the text of each page in portrait and landscape mode. This seems to be why the application is 500MB. The article suggests this was done to get the app out quickly after Flash was officially vetoed by Steve Jobs."

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Re:Well... by alen · 2010-05-27 14:00 · Score: 1, Flamebait

that was $115,000 in revenue. how much did it cost to make this monstrosity? i bet they lost money.
all the news i've read about the digital magazines on the iPad is that they are a bust. the print media screwed up their business model 10 years ago and no one wants to pay crazy prices to bail them out
Is this really the future of fagazines? by Hognoxious · 2010-05-27 23:17 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yes, if the magazine in question is like this one, this one or this one.

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