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Is Wired's App Really the Future of Magazines?

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Well... by martin-boundary · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you ever bought the print edition of Wired? Half of it is ads already. They were simply trying to replicate the print edition feel :)

  2. Re:Well... by DigiShaman · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least now when you flip the iPad up-side-down, subscription cards don't come falling out.

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    Life is not for the lazy.
  3. Re:Well... by Minwee · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least now when you flip the iPad up-side-down, subscription cards don't come falling out.

    Don't worry, I'm sure there's an app for that.