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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. Obviously... by Spyware23 · · Score: 1, Troll

    The answer is no. Also, anyone using the iPad as ereader is mentally insane and hates his/her eyes.

    1. Re:Obviously... by Darkman,+Walkin+Dude · · Score: 0, Troll

      Really? This meme again? Someone always brings this garbage up. I guarantee you using the iPad as an eReader will have zero effect on your eyes.

      You don't happen to work for the tobacco companies do you? Just because the effect is ten years down the road doesn't mean there won't be long term effects. You eyes are not built to stare at a luminous object for long periods of time. Even apple gets this, I don't see any book eyestrain warnings. E-ink is the only way forward, although you may comfort yourself with the idea that the ipad will somehow revolutionise, er, anything. No, some of us ask for, nay demand the powerful calves and defined thighs of little asian women rather than the flaccid drippings from jobs' bellend, my friend.

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  2. Re:Well... by Darkman,+Walkin+Dude · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'd love it if they figured out a way to make an interesting magazine on the iPad.

    Why, the ipad is a terrible format for extended reading. You want your CMYK ebook screen for that, because your eyes aren't built to stare comfortably at lumious light sources for long. Plus the ipad is pretty silly anyway, no we don't want the smegma smears from jobs' bellend around here, tis the shapely and powerful golden thighs of little asian women we lust after.

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    What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.
  3. Re:Why we shouldn't care about ipad-based magazine by hairykrishna · · Score: 0, Troll

    Those 10,000 have already demonstrated that they'll buy any old shit, provided it's shiny, though. Very desirable marketing demographic.

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