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I don’t know if I’m alone in this, but I’ve been having issues with subscriptions on iPad of late. Never mind the fact that all of the Conde Nast apps are constantly asking me with a pop-up window whether I want to “restore my purchases” every time I open the app, I’m getting other strange [...]
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This article was posted on August 23, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: App, Conde Nast, Esquire, iPad, Subscriptions, Wired
I should start by saying that this isn’t just a regular review of GQ on iPad, because I’m using it as an example of something that has been bothering me of late — the use of scrolling in iPad editions of magazines — and the latest issue uses it in a way that finally made [...]
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This article was posted on July 3, 2011 under the category Commentary, Reviews, and covers the following topics:
This is just a simple thing, but it’s also another example of why I enjoy digital editions of magazines. It’s Saturday, I wake up rather late. I go to the kitchen, get the coffee maker going. I then go back to my futon (I live in Japan, remember), grab my iPad, and am greeted with [...]
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This article was posted on June 18, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: iPad, Newsstand, Wired
This isn’t a proper review — which is why I’ve put it in the “Commentary” category — but I wanted to bring up an example of something I’ve been enjoying in the recently launched iPad edition of EGMi (the weekly digital spinoff of EGM magazine). They’ve run these in a few issues, and as you [...]
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This article was posted on June 15, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: Audio, EGM, EGMi, Jeff Bridges, Project
As I mentioned in the previous post, another bit of weirdness I recently experienced with the GQ app was when I started reading it before it had completed downloaded. One of the features I was actually very happy to see in the last update to the Adobe digital publishing tools (to the client app) was [...]
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This article was posted on June 13, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: App, GQ, iPad
What the hell is wrong with the GQ app? Every single time I open it to continue reading the latest issue, it asks me if I want to restore my previous purchases (see the screen grab). No other Conde Nast app does that, so I’m assuming it’s some sort of bug, but why are they [...]
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This article was posted on June 13, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: App, GQ, iPad
I’ve probably already said enough on how I’m not crazy about the iPad edition of Newsweek, but I’m just astounded by how the app deals with trying to get rid of older issues. With my iPad constantly on the verge of being full — not surprising, considering the amount of magazines I read (especially those [...]
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This article was posted on June 6, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: App, iPad, Newsweek, Subscriptions
This is certainly not the kind of message you want to get when you try to access your digital issues on your iPad (see image on the left, from the Esquire app). It’s the first time I encounter an error message like this any of my magazine apps, so it may just be a result [...]
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This article was posted on May 30, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: App, Errors, Esquire, iPad
It’s been interesting to see how Conde Nast is doing subscriptions. As I mentioned the other day, I’ve subscribed to The New Yorker using the monthly $6 option, which renews automatically (you can stop anytime). Now, by doing this you’re still getting a good deal, yet you don’t have to commit for an entire year (although that [...]
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This article was posted on May 18, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: App, Conde Nast, iPad, Subscriptions, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired
A few weeks ago I was contacted by Florian Franke, who was telling me about his Laker project, and what I saw excited me to no end. Initially produced as part of his diploma thesis, Laker is a package of frameworks and files that allows you to produce HTML5-based digital publications. The advantage of a [...]
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This article was posted on May 14, 2011 under the category Commentary, and covers the following topics: Andrew Losowsky, App, Aside, Florian Franke, HTML5, iPad, iPhone, Johannes Ippen, Laker, Nico Engelhardt