WIRED Magazine 17+

I wanted something to read. Instead I got some sort of game. I installed and subscribed to this on the basis of the excellent experience offered by the New Yorker iPad app from the same publisher. That works perfectly with none of the annoyances of this app. To start with, every time I launch the app, I have to type in my iTunes password. When it detects a new issue is available, it tries to sell it to me, even though I'm subscribed for a year. Those may be bugs, but once you get past them, the actual designed behaviour is not actually a reading experience that I enjoy. I learned to read without moving my lips and pointing out each word with a finger quite some time ago. Aside from turning a page, reading for 40 years has been a one-handed activity. However this app does every trick it can to hide the text of articles. The screen is typically taken up with a graphic. A hint (or not) is given to where the text might be hiding. You have to press here, scroll there, to reveal it in tiny portions. I should be given points for each paragraph I find, so a ranking in Game Center could tell me if I've really done reading. When reading becomes a two-handed activity, it is no longer comfortable to do sitting in an easy chair or lying down. It's a chore to be done at a workstation. Not what a magazine ever was or would want to be. Surprising that Wired should be the one to so comprehensively misapply the technology.

What a waste of talent and resources. All that work, the designers are doing to maximise new technologies to deliver, what is, a fantastic product... yet... IT DOESN'T DOWNLOAD !!!! This has definitely got to hurt the company, and the data will show that I, and many others will NOT be risking another purchase of this magazine again.

I really really want to support this concept. I wish other magazines can see this as a way of the future, and it would be great if THIS is the model that other publications strive to. However, constant errors, and massive problems with the download will see very few 'pay up' next month, without some kind of assurance that we WILL get what we pay for.
PLEASE, just put the file onto a secure website or something so legitimate purchasers have another option to transfer it to the ipad, .... I JUST want the content!!!

This is a great failure for what is a quality magazine, and I give up trying to get it downloaded.
I feel sorry for the design team who have worked hard to produce something that few people will get to see.
Thanks for nothing. I am assuming, even though there would be data of who has paid and unsuccessfully downloaded, that there will be no refund. So, I have lost my money, and therefore, the app will be deleted. Bye.

Hey scrutarius... If you press the home and the lock button at the same time (at any time but even when reading wired) it takes a screen grab of whatever you're doing and puts it in your photos, where you can then email it or print (soon) or whatever. Problem solved...

As for the content layout, I like it, and enough thought has gone into it so as to not require pinch to zoom in my opinion, with the font size being big enough. I think the other reviewers reasons against are in fact it's biggest positives, and I flick pages off via email to friends who I think may like it every now and then, when I would never bother whipping out my PHOTOCOPIER!? to do the same thing. The good news is that email is free and doesn't cost extra for colour. Not sure if Conde Nast would have a problem with it or if they're happy I'm promoting their product... I'm sure it's in writing somewhere...

I like the magazine, and am giving it 5 stars to try and even out this other un-informed review of what is a pretty good mag, and the best format to date so far, besides the file sizes.