Review: Wired iPad App
This is part of the Top Magazine iPad series
Under the same publisher as Vanity Fair and GQ, Conde Nast has also released Wired magazine as an iPad app, after much anticipation. Despite its early support for an iPad transition, even before the device was finished being made, Wired’s affiliation with third-party Adobe (which has been axed by Apple entirely) has delayed its app release. What it offers now is a technically revised app but one that Wired seems to be pretty content with.
So the iPad now exists. Superb. And as a delivery device for news and entertainment content, it looks absolutely fantastic. Of course, the normal Apple disclaimers apply… Yes, not many people will have one initially. Yes, the cost of repurposing content for this interface will not be negligible. But from the first look it seems to be the best thing that has happened to the industry in a little while. No, I’m not a starry-eyed optimist believing that one device will save the industry. But it is one device, built to deliver a superb user experience, with an attached store through which Apple have proven the mass market will PAY FOR CONTENT AND APPLICATIONS.
