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WIRED Magazine App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Huge downloadsThis app is very bad. It has no imagination about how content or advertising can be presented on the iPad. You end up flicking over endless pages of static adverts; some may have a limited token gesture of interactivity. Also, with a magazine weighing in at 500mb, it shows how rubbish Adobe's new .issue format is. The publishing company that writes and releases a bespoke iPad app that both delivers content and adverts in a new way which is suited to an interactive device like the iPad, will lead the industry. This is a lazy Adobe/Indesign attempt at unsuccessfully converting the magazine idiom for the interactive future..Version: 0
✓ Shoddy underlying purchase engineMore problems with the latest update. Like many other users I updated to the latest version of the app and found that all my previously purchased issues had disappeared. However, tech support revealed that they can be downloaded again for free (despite it seeming otherwise from within the app). I tried it and it worked - you just have to click thru the buying messages and you'll eventually see a reassuring 'you have already purchased this issue so can download it for free' alert. Wired could have made this much clearer in both the App Store description and the App itself and saved themselves an awful lot of bad will from their loyal users whom they depend on so much going forwards....Version: 1.6
✓ Ditto: Lost all of my issues after updating to 1.6Wired, wake up and get it together! I had 6 previous issues of your mag and would like to read them without re-buying. Please let us know what you're doing to fix the issue. thx..Version: 1.6
✓ Useless subscriptionWhen Apple came up with newsstand, I thought the whole idea was that the latest magazine would be automatically downloaded. But it doesn't, even worse, you must babysit the download and you can only download one magazine at a time. It would be better if it was just a regular app. Every time I get on a plane, I pull out my iPad and think, good time to read wired. Nope, 350MB on wifi at an airport usually takes an hour and I can't use my iPad for anything else. Pure garbage. Now I just got an email noting that I have been charged for another year. Managing subscriptions on an iPad is in a ridiculously hidden location. (Store, touch featured, scroll to bottom, select apple ID, then select manage subscriptions). Then you can disable autorenew which is automatically chosen when you purchase an annual subscription..Version: 3.7
✓ Love the Mag, but you just donI've enjoyed the magazine for years. I even like it through this app. Here comes the "but", - but even as brilliant as the mag is, your delivery through this medium, not so much. Obliviously, you didn’t really do any research on what the market will bare as to pricing. You just threw it out there and waited to see what would happen. You obliviously didn’t do any study on how you would get someone to buy each issue. You certainly have some experience in this area with magazine rack sales, which this medium is more likely to model, as you provide a free app to get the magazine (it’s like the magazine rack), but one can’t preview it before buying. Don’t tell me that it’s not possible. It’s just not so. So basically what has happen here is you decided you needed to get on the bandwagon and have an app, pretend you are committed to this medium, and see what happens. I suspect you will have no choice in the future to make this work, but it’s apparent by your current entry, you don’t feel the pressure yet. That’s fine, but it does make your job more difficult in the future to convince the buying public you really have a product that will meet our needs..Version: 1.5
✓ Very poor upgrade & poor customer supportUpgraded and lost previous purchases. I can not stress how poor the customer support for this app is. After finally getting a response, a very curt email bombarding me with a load of questions, which I did answer. I then received another email asking for my iTunes receipt, which I provided. The upshot after 3 weeks I still how not recovered my lost magazines. The experience has been so poor I shall also be cancelling my printed subscriptions too. Sort this out wired your dying in the comments here!.Version: 0
✓ Good content, clunky subscriptionHas all you would expect from Wired, interesting content and I like the interactive parts. BUT don't believe it when it tells you new editions will download automatically and in the background - you have to go in and select download and if you leave the app the download will pause or even forget where it is up to. Pretty disappointing for a tech mag of this standard..Version: 3.5
✓ No supportSame as Brad. I had to replace my iPad and since getting the new one there is no way I can find to get my subscription going again. Numerous requests for "support" have been ignored. One word on the support form, when you HAVE to enter a zip code for the form to actually submit, it's awfully hard to do that when you are not an American customer and, therefor, do not have a zip code. I loved the magazine but this experience has turned me right off, no way will I subscribe again..Version: 3.7
✓ A digital app not for digital subscribers.How can Wired magazine, a magazine centered around all things digital, not understand that when you purchase a “digital subscription” that means you intend to read it on a digital device?!?! That means digital devices like phones, laptops, tablets, desktops, etc. Well they define digital as web browser. Yet they also make this digital app, but that’s not for digital customers. So all you subscribers who sign up for a digital subscription, this app is USELESS to you as they will not let you sign in and use your digital subscription in this digital app, for this digital tech magazine. Bonkers. Instead if you want to make use of technology and use this app, you also have to waste trees and paper on a redundant hard copy of the print magazine..Version: 5.7
✓ New version goes backwardsWired magazine app used to be outstanding. For some unknown reason it was replaced with something that was a poor shadow of its forerunner. Disappointing that a supposedly tech hip mag would think releasing an inferior UX is OK. Can we have the previous UI so I can re-review at 5 stars?.Version: 5.0
✓ Annoying sign on procesdConstantly need to request a sign on link. app does not work. canceling subscription on my ipad does not work. stay away from this!.Version: 5.7
✓ Fix the app and stop the stealing!!I've enjoyed 3 previous issues of Wired for iPad despite the somewhat high single-issue price. I'm still waiting for fair-priced annual subscription model. But, most importantly, as many other users have noted, the latest issue can be purchased but NOT downloaded. Do, Wired will take your $$$ and give you NOTHING in return. i wish I had read these reviews before buying the latest issue as it seems this problem has persisted for over a week and is STILL wreaking havoc today (Nov. 7)..Version: 0
✓ DoesnI'm running ios4 on my ipad 2. This is one of the most frustrating apps. Every time I am downloading something, and I shift to another app, it stops downloading. VERY FRUSTRATING. Enjoy the magazine, but the amount of effort to download is not worth it..Version: 3.5
✓ Still Completely BrokenMakes no difference how good the content is, if it all disappears after you pay for it. How do I get my money back?? New version April 27 2011 still doesn't recognize (or provide access to) the issues I PAID for. This app should have been banned from the app store by now. It's blatant fraud..Version: 1.8
✓ Well it finally works on an iPad 2At least with this update I can now read my purchased magazines, once I have download them AGAIN!!! Really, you guys should have better QA than this and making people re-download their magazines is extremely poor particularly from what is supposed to be a "technology" magazine. And whilst a free issue is nice idea I would really have preferred not to have to download several gigs of magazine data just because someone screwed up..Version: 1.7
✓ Country restriction!! Why???I have a mail subscription now for 3 years...why is the digital edition limited to US and Canada??.Version: 3.0
✓ Cute but nonsense for subscribersThe articles in the July issue were nicely done; I especially liked the layered Trent Reznor pieces. However, I already pay for my print subscription (ironically, the dead tree version is the most compelling for me still), and as many people are already commenting, why would anyone pay so much per issue when we already can get a print version for less and online articles for free? The static content lacked the most basic level of interactivity found in any news app. There are too few articles contained in the iPad version compared to the content you are churning out online. Wired sets a high bar in design and content so I had very high expectations for this iPad app. I'll keep my rating at a generous 3 stars in the hope that Wired will rethink its payment model; at least give subscribers access to the same articles online that we already have in our hands!.Version: 0
✓ Not a bad effort....The content is a great as always... But I can get that on paper... And paying the same thing... The app is lacking. PDF with large videos and some sounds... Basically the same experience as the other magazines. What makes this great is the iPad but this is not that wired or adobe were aiming for. Also - price. Charge me and skip the adds or fill it with adds and give it to me for free. Magazines charge for issues to cover printing and distribution. They make money from adds and the data they share with ad agencies. Since you are collecting info from my device and there is no printing and transport - and charging 5 figures for advertising, then don't hit me twice for an issue charge. Not impressed... Expensive and quite large app..Version: 0
✓ I want my magazines back!Last update removed all 5 0f my previously purchased issues. Don't upgrade, it's a disaster! When will this get fixed?.Version: 1.6
✓ Nice if you like hogsAs a pure wow effect, the issue is impressive. There was a lot of iPad-centric bling to keep me turning the pages. But after all the cute tricks, I found I really didn't learn much. I mean, do I really need Will Ferrel to tell we don't have jet packs? Where's the substance? This is really just a lot of fluff. Also, why such a large file? 500 MBs? I've only got 16 GBs to work with as it is. And what's with the price? You shipped nothing. You risked nothing. You receive zero returned copies. You need proofs, no on press approvals, none of the expense of a paper product. Yet you have the nerve to charge $4 for what? You guys have learned nothing from the record business and yet you write about technology and the future as if you understood it. How can I take you seriously as a visionary magazine if you continue to operate like a 20th century company? Here's a tip: charge .99 for your magazine and I'll give it another try. At .99, if the content improves, and the file size is 100 MBs, I may stick around. The iPad was supposed to save magazines; but the publishers have got to save themselves by putting out products that have value. We want substance not silliness. We want innovators, not comedians..Version: 0
✓ Do not buy a digital subscription.What a worthless app. I reset my password multiple times and I deleted and redownloaded the app. I am still not able to access my subscription..Version: 5.7
✓ Lost all my purchases on upgradeHaving faithfully purchased very issue of Wired since it arrived on the iPad I was mortified to see all my purchases disappear following the update. While the failure to test the app properly seems amateurish, the silence from the publisher, lack of an apology and several weeks that have now passed is inexcusable. I will not be wasting my time and money on further Conde Naste publications..Version: 1.7
✓ Was good - now total rubbishI downloaded the first issue which was a great piece of media. Then the update comes along. Current copy lost so have to download again and it stops at 4.2MB out of 500. So there's hardly any incentive to buy new copies when this update has lost the copy i already paid for and had downloaded. WIRED is a tech magazine, so how about you sort out your tech before you start recommending or criticising others in a magazine! Pot, kettle and black me thinks.... ALSO, this is the second time I have submitted this review. It seems as they were getting a lot of bad reviews from this horrendous, incapacitating update they have somehow deleted all reviews. Suspicious?....Version: 0
✓ AwfulConde Nast should be embarrased with itself! As a major worldwide publisher, it should offer top-of-the-line digital companion apps to its print magazines. I have been a longtime subscriber of a number of their magazines, and yet, I can't even access ANY of them on my iPhone 7 Plus (or any iPhone I've owned prior)?! As a paying customer who is entitled to receive a digital subsciption, it's really awful that I can't access it just because I don't currently own an iPad (I haven't been able to replace my broken one for a long time). And for those who do have an iPad, they may not want to carry it everywhere just to access their magazines. I also agree with others who have said the apps have many bugs and problems. In fact, the apps haven't changed all that much since I owned an iPad 1 -- do you hear that?! A FIRST EDITION iPAD!! You guys probably need to start from scratch and develop entirely new apps for each of your magazines, or perhaps even develop a single app where we can access all of our Conde Nast subscriptions. I'd especially love to read all of my magazines on the go, but Wired and Allure need to be taken care of first. Please don't disappoint your longtime customers. There are ton of magazine choices these days -- and as much as I love my Conde Nast magazines, I'd hate to have to find similar replacements elsewhere just because you guys don't care about paying customers who should be getting digital access and can't..Version: 4.6.7
✓ PoorI eagerly awaited this latest issue, which promised to be retina compatible. However I was dismayed by the 789MB size. I was frustrated that this app does not support background downloading. I started the download, quit the app to do something else, and returned later on to discover my download had paused. When the download finally completed, and I started to the read the magazine I found that not everything is retina. Much of the text ads were fuzzy. Normally I don't look at the ads anyway, but seeing them like that is just distracting. I will not be renewing my subscription this month..Version: 3.7
✓ Dreadful implementation of NewsstandThe whole point of Newsstand is that new editions are supposed to magically appear having downloaded in the background. Wired editions are the best part of HALF A GIG in size. Even going in to he app and trying to download, the screen lock kicks in, pausing the download. Meaning you have to sit there touching the screen until the damned thing has downloaded. And when it has downloaded? The massive splurge of data gives you an animated cover! Woop de doo! And a couple of crappy embedded movies. I can only assume they've been really dumb and exported uncompressed hi res tiffs from the print magazine. With all these problems, for my subscription I have only been able to read ONE of my four copies so far. Oh. And thanks for mirroring the paper mag identically. I love going past 4 or 5 full page ads of crap before getting to the contents page or any content whatsoever..Version: 3.5
✓ Was good...... but is now one of worst apps!I downloaded and installed the first issue,which seemed very good and imaginative but I had not finished reading it though.I just settled down to read a bit more......and.... Now I find my 500mb magazine has been "updated" by wiping it out just to give me a simple 5mb installer app,I am expected to reload the issue I had (a massive file )from within the app on wi fi, and then they expect me to buy the next one!! ,again from within the app....- they have to be joking! Looking back It did seem to have rather a lot of Ads... I am afraid they seem to be only interested in advert revenue and app sales income not a good customer service or experience...Version: 0
✓ I Give Up !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..Version: 1.4.1
✓ Magazine download failedI used to read the print edition faithfully until the price became too much in New Zealand. As soon as I got my iPad I immediately purchased the latest issue. Alas, the download stopped 2/3 of the way through. I fired a missive off to Wired and someone will eventually get back, I suppose. I'm writing this review the following day, so I figure they're closed for the weekend. I tried downloading again, and it stopped in exactly the same place. Because we pay for bandwidth in NZ, that's 540MB to date, and it costs me. If it eventually gets resolved, that will cost another 337MB! We strike a bargain with publishers. The deal is that the iPad and it's ilk are supposed to save their industry. But if they take our money then we expect the product right away. I realise that there are technical glitches beyond their control, but then all they have to do is at least inform their customers when the issue will be resolved. Here's hoping that it gets fixed. They have a motivated buyer, but they have to deliver the product..Version: 0
✓ Nothing SpecialThis is a pretty average digital mag. It doesn't really do anything special, a few controllable videos thrown in and a bit of audio here and there is as good as it gets. The layout isn't very intuitive, it's often unclear when there's vertical content available and there's no option to control the zoom level. Although the content is good I feel they could have done so much more with this and came away pretty disappointed..Version: 0
✓ DammitOkay, updated the WIRED app and it ate all my past issues. Not pleased or impressed. GIVE THEM BACK..Version: 1.6
✓ No way Wired!Magazine great. App terrible. Sack the dev team! What is going on!? This is the second bad review I've written for wired. The first was on the second upgrade for the app where the downloaded kept failing and now all of issues worth about £40 or so have disappeared. This is ridiculous wired. Do a proper QA process before your releases especially to avoid bugs as fundamental as this one. New readers, avoid this and buy the paper mag. The one mag which should have made a smooth transition into the digital age given it's audience is a complete disaster. Somebody from wired give me back my paid downloads!.Version: 0
✓ Expensive for just a single issueOnline mags are not new. Editor Chris Anderson calls this an innovative new idea. Hardly. I've been waiting for a Wired subscription on Zinio for years that i can read on my desktop, laptop, not just on an ipad, along with a lot of other mags I read online. I don't buy paper mags anymore. And Zinio keeps all my back issues available online...going back to 2004. But Wired needs to consider a few things. First this is a single issue. I'm not going to pay rack rate for each online issue. Second why would anyone want anything less than a sub price, except for a special edition. Third will all those issues of Wired require another app button for each....yikes...pileup. Fourth these files are BIG. Where do I store the library of back issues before before my pad runs outa space. Come on guys. You are all giddy with your first digital magazine. SurprisIng for a tech mag. But, you need to figure out the tech better. After all you're a tech mag..Version: 0
✓ Lost LibraryAfter upgrading to iOS 5 the stand alone Wired app was replaced with Apple Newsstand as Wired said it would. However when I click on Wired within Newsstand it hangs. I can no longer read my previous purchases nor can I buy new issues..Version: 3.5
✓ Worst $20 I have ever spent!I purchased an annual subscription and I have never been able to get it to work. Sent a request to Wired "Customer Service" (is that what's its called these days?) and received no response. As the title states - Worst $20 I have ever spent (and I haven't always made great purchase decisions!)!!!.Version: 3.7
✓ Painfully slow download, poor interface. A ripoff.If you own Zinio, you will immediately see why Conde Naste have the electronic magazine all wrong. Zinio editions can be read immediately as they download while the interface means you'll have to wait. For me, with a slow, regional Australia, broadband connection this takes 30 minutes with several dropouts and 8 out of 10 times a crash. Don't bother! Looks like Wired, but what you've bought is a version you can't cut and paste like a print version; which you can't ogle (no zoom); it exists only in virtual space. I'd like to email bits to friends and students, cut out and keep aside some of the provocative diagrams and images. I can photocopy the print version so why not this one? This is disappointing. I use Wired often for discussion stimulus for my students. I'm lucky because the Uni library gives me access to the electronic version of Wired, but I'm happy to pay for an electronic subscription myself if I actually own it. For a magazine which has championed the digital revolution and led the field, the limitations of this version are retrograde..Version: 3.0
✓ The future of publishing? I hope not!I kept seeing reviews and comments about this magazine app, so I bought it to see what all the hype was about. Sorry, but it's the dying breath of an old archaic print institution. This is not the future of publishing at all. There are too many ads they are charging as much as I would expect to pay for a physical magazine, and it's not rendered in a way which enables the text to be reflowed at larger or smaller font sizes. It's basically just like a scanned magazine with links, and a few extra pieces of content. I don't mind paying for content, but not to see ads on almost every other page, especially when they aren't covering physical distribution costs. The future of publishing is in dynamic content with relevant articles displayed relating to what I am reading, not a fixed static series of rendered pages with no ability to resize text. Haven't Condé Nast learned anything from current web publishing?.Version: 0
✓ Wasting time….does not workPurchased the digital edition for one year with renewal and is not working on Wired app, not even showed in subscriptions.Version: 5.7
✓ Poor update for Retina DispalyAgain WIRED is a technology magazine that does not do technology - sigh. The fonts in its articles on the retina display look like you have been drinking - not crisp like you would expect. This is after the upgrade for the retina display Titles nice and clear - text terrible. Not the first time this app has failed to live up to the quality of the writing in the magazine - WIRED - you should be ashamed..Version: 3.7
✓ App is badLogin is difficult across web and app. Poorly designed, very poor user experience, Especially for an app the covers the tech world..Version: 5.7
✓ Too much coffeeI've always liked the writing style and feel of Wired, I feel this translates onto the app successfully. some very good articles and app/media specific functions which sneak up on you. The new front end worked/works very well for me but having to re-download my original purchase was annoying and if I'd had to rely on my 3G then that would have been an extra £10 and a month's worth of allowance for a single app on top of the £2.39. The ads seemed very obtrusive, especially when they have more content/features than the articles - either trim them back or the cost IMO..Version: 0
✓ Where did all my purchased content go?Upgrading left me without all of my previously purchased issues. If I could give this app a zero I would! Come on Wired get this fixed, I want my issues back or a full refund. Wired, you're dead to me........Version: 1.7
✓ PoorEven before newsstand this app had problems. It basically starts downloading, then pauses. So you leave it to download, expecting to come back later (the downloads are massive) and it has paused. You start it again and it pauses. You keep doing this until it downloads. As the downloads are about 0.5gb the whole process takes ages. Now, with newsstand, it doesn't even start to download. it gives you an error and then fails. After a long time putting up with these problems, I decided to contact Wired through their website and surprise surprise their contact form doesn't work..Version: 3.5
✓ Broken update - charged for re BuyUpdate: My "re Buy" of the June 2010 issue was CHARGED to my credit card with a new receipt number! I've email Apple support and have given them the old receipt number. From Apple Support: Kevin, I have gone through your purchases and found that you have purchased app "WIRED Magazine " previously and now in app "WIRED June 2010 [From: WIRED Magazine]" and hence got charged for that. In app purchases are different from app purchases. --- So now its In App purchases, they can charge for it again!? No Way! - They make you re download all previous purchased issues. Managed to "re Buy" one issue, but the next one they are asking to re verify my credit card details! Clicked cancel just in case I will get charged again..Version: 1.6
✓ No accessI signed up new digital plus print subscription, set up a password and it does not work to get me into app. You have to enter information from mailing label which is not here yet!.Version: 5.7
✓ Still having Download problemsWi-Fi DL was stop and start, stuttered and stopped. Eventually just waited till I got home and DL'd via iTunes and synced. I suspect it's partly just new issue rush. I'm VERY disappointed that we're still paying $4 an issue. I'm assuming that the lack of a subscription is just an iTunes logistics issue and that once Apple adds that capability all the magazine vendors will switch over to a more affodable business model. I stopped buying TIME magazine because of this issue and I will stop buying Wired for the same reason if this continues. I bought my iPad for a lot of reasons, but one of the primary features for me was the abiilty to read my favorite magazines portably and all in one location. Love it. But I can't justify paying $5 a week for TIME and $4 an issue for Wired when I can get the same things in print for so much less. And something is wrong with a model that costs a publisher 2% of the print costs but for which they charge you orders of magnitude more. Come on, publishers. Make this vision a reality, get with the iTunes model of high profit through high volume via low consumer cost!.Version: 0
✓ Too many bugsMy Wired magazine mysteriously stopped coming. After 2 weeks (!) emails with Wired help, I was advised to delete and reinstall. This sort of fixed the problem. Customer service link on the app doesn't do anything. Links within the magazine to stories on Wired's website crash the app so I don't even get to read the articles. Wired is a tech magazine, so for it to be run through an app as bad as this is unbelievable..Version: 4.2
✓ Frustrating downloadsThis is a good magazine app, the main thing that let's it down is the fact that if you migrate away while it is downloading an issue the download pauses. Are the people who made this app so pleased with the download bar the we should watch it slide across to 100%. why can't it download in the background or have a setting where you can choose for it to download automatically when connected to wifi.Version: 3.0
✓ WIRED should pay me for my timeI got my $5 digital subscription. It doesn't work here, and it /also/ doesn't work in a browser..Version: 5.7
✓ Good articles but got probsI like the writing of the articles, but there's way too many ads for a paid subscription. You should only get that in a free app and even then it's still too many. Also I bought a year subscription and only got 5 issues before it tells me I need to buy another. What's with that? Fix these things and it would be great..Version: 3.9
✓ Great writing but search doesn’t work5* for the magazine but I find it very frustrating that when I see an interesting Wired article come up on Instagram, I can never find it through the Search facility on my subscription. Likewise, if I want to find or return to something I heard about of pasted quickly, the Search function doesn’t work; it brings up an error message asking me to log in. Well, I’m already logged in and search still doesn’t work!.Version: 5.7
✓ Not a great reading experienceI 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..Version: 3.0
✓ Confusing subscriptionI subscribed to Wired through their website only to find out that to use the app, you need a print subscription. That’s ridiculous..Version: 5.7
✓ Great magazine but upgrade doesn't workDon't buy the issue it doesn't download. I wish I had read the reviews before I purchased the latest edition. I purchased June issue and had download issues the only issue I had no issues downloading was July. After much back and forth with Wired staff they sent me a foreign cheque for $4.99 which I cannot deposit even though I paid via credit card. I vowed never to buy the magazine again but decided to give them one moors chance in November and the are more download issues absolute muppets in wired have no idea how to deliver an iPad magazine..Version: 0
✓ Purchased issues are goneNot cool, Wired. The purchased issues are gone and I am asked to buy again? No way. Downloading them again is already a joke since we are paying for download/upload volume. Paying again for the same? Nope. I am done..Version: 1.7
✓ Cash grabApp is free but all it does is let you buy individual issues for $3.99..Version: 0
✓ Where did my purchases go?I, too, have just run the update, and all of the editions that I've purchased have vanished. This is my favorite mag app, but am I REALLY going to have to repurchase each issue? UPDATE FAIL..Version: 1.6
✓ Condé NastThis app requires so many various manipulations to try to make it work that I finally gave up and deleted it. Cancel my Wired subscription !.Version: 5.7
✓ Non-functional subscription systemI'm not able to subscribe to this magazine. The interface appears to be broken. Fix the application if you want my money. ;).Version: 3.7
✓ Conde Nast digital screwed up!Having your issues disappear on an app upgrade is bad! Worse is not telling people they have to repurchase the issues "at no charge", and of course pay for the 3 or 4 Gigabytes additional on their data plan. Even worse is is to set it up so if you didn't buy an issue you can't bail out before you are charged for it! That to me is FRAUD! G++.Version: 1.6
✓ DO NOT BUYThis worked OK at first but now all I can see is a 'free' iPad test version despite the fact that I paid £2.99 for the June issue. Is this something to do with the fact that it is 1st July today as this seems to have happened overnight. if this is the case then show me in the small print where it says the issues you bought disappears when the month ends. iPad shows this as installed when I go to the App store so how could I buy the July edition anyhow? Very unsatisfactory to say the least, sort it out please developers and quickly you are getting lots of negative reviews & few new sales.Version: 0
✓ Read the critical reviewsAll the (major) complaints still apply. You literally can't login with the app. And if you're lucky enough to login, the app still doesn't recognize your subscription and asks for $7.99 to download a magazine. Oh, by the way, none of the online articles are accessible from the app..Version: 5.7
✓ Lost all my Wired Issues after doing an updateI had two Wired Issues purchased and now they are gone, the only way to get them back is if I buy them again - including the latest April issue! I want my money back....Version: 1.6
✓ Can’t have full screen on iPhone XSThe screen isn’t adapted to the iPhoneX and XS. If you don’t fix that I’m cancelling my subscription..Version: 4.7.3
✓ Crash!!Used to be a great app. But after update, all this app does is crash. Please fix it!!.Version: 3.7
✓ DisappointedI will be removing this application. Wired EZines are too big and take forever to download adding extra cost to each issue for which the customer gets nothing, only frustration..Version: 0
✓ Avoid!Grossly overpriced compared to their website pricing (where you can also get access to the magazine via the app). Support has been useless. App is shockingly basic, hard to believe it was made by a tech mag. I don’t usually leave reviews, but can’t help myself this time. A total disappointment. Do not buy this..Version: 5.7
✓ Rating is referring to November issue purchase/download problemsI have been using this app for a number of months now with now problem at all. The release of each issue was notified appropriately and downloading was rock solid. I have really enjoyed each issue and think that WIRED is making the most out of the iPad medium. However, the November issues has major problems. After I selected the buy option, it wouldn't complete the purchase process for a number of attempts and when it finally did complete it, it comes up with an error on the download. I still haven't received my issue - please get this sorted ASAP -it's clearly been a problem for a number of days now. I imagine the WIRED team clearly spend a lot of time on each issue, it'd be a shame for it to just sit there on the "stand" - especially since I've already handed over the cash!.Version: 0
✓ It crashes all the time!It would've been an awesome app had it not crashed all the time! I mean ALL the time!.Version: 3.0
✓ Lots of potentialWell done. Only a couple of issues, its unclear when there's more content below the first page and the download size is pretty ridiculous, its good that you can view video at any time rather than stream it but with so many adverts in there i can't help but think half of the download size is for advertising videos? Alot of positives to take from it though, its a great first go. Keep it up!.Version: 0
✓ Good looking, but not revolutionaryThe Wired app has gotten a lot of press since well before it's release. I was really excited to download it because it had the promise of reinventing the magazine. I have enjoyed reading Wired on my iPad, and it has some fun interactive elements, but I don't like that it's 500+ megabytes big. My problem with the size is mainly that I tend to have multiple copies of a magazine available for browsing, and if they each are that big, it's not gonna work. I have also been disappointed with the interactive features. Somehow compared this magazine to a CD-ROM of old, and I am coming to agree with that. I would rather have a PDF with real text than a set of giant pictures of content. With that said, if I'm gonna have pictures of content, i prefer Zinio to the single magazine model. Zinio seems to have a similarly limited set of interactive features, but I can hop from magazine to magazine with ease. Maybe Conde Nast needs a similar app for all of its magazines..Version: 0
✓ Looks great; usability nightmareThere are certainly a lot of good things in this app, and it's cool to see some of the possibilities for the future of magazines, but if this is as good as it's going to get, that future looks pretty bleak. The biggest problem is navigation. It's half traditional magazine (standard pages with text and images) and half new format (vertical flows and interactive content). The problem is that there's now way to know where one ends and the other begins. For example, I found myself continuously trying to scroll down on single pages, not knowing whether there was more content or not. The whole idea of giving some pages more height than others really seems like an answer to a question that nobody asked; imagine how annoying it would be if half the pages in a print magazine folded out like a Playboy centerfold (only without the centerfold). Similarly, it's really difficult to tell which content is interactive and I found myself trying to tap everything on a page to find out. Other interface issues are no zoom, no back button, no text-only mode (Zinio's got it), and one too many taps to get to the page overview mode (2 to Zinio's 1). Add to this the high price and outrageous file size and it's hard to recommend this app. I love Wired's content and I was really looking forward to this one, but they dropped the ball on too many basic elements to call this a success..Version: 0
✓ SCAM - It charged me twice for the same issue after I archived it.I purchased the June issue months ago and I went to archive the issue and it told me I could re-download it at any time free of charge. Today I went to re-download the June issue which I already paid for and it charged me again $3.99. I want my money back for what it charged me the second time for the same issue. What a scam..Version: 1.5
✓ Return my purchased magsI lost all my purchased mags, even the one I have not yet read! More bugs created than fixed! Steelwarrior.Version: 1.6
✓ When magazines become con men...I purchased this app when it was a real magazine and gave me a full edition. Now updated to a free app, anyone that paid for this when it first came out lost access to the first edition and is seemingly expected to pay a second time for that months magazine. I would consider myself to be the exact person that this app and the digital versions are aimed at, especially since I used to actually buy the printed version of this magazine, but now that I feel conned by the app publishers I will not be buying anything todo with wired again until a day I see them confess to there 'mistake' and try and take some action to rectify it..Version: 0
✓ Customer service is awful, Wired is stealing from meAfter the iOS update, all of my previously purchased issues say, "Error during download. Cannot start download because the file is missing or invalid". I have tried removing the app, reinstalling, and restoring all of my previous purchases. No dice. I sent a message to Wired via their website and they sent me a nice GFY email that said that they'd contact me within 24 hours. They did NOT contact me in 24 hours. I called the phone number in the email they sent and the nice people told me that they cannot help with problems with the Wired app. I asked why they would send me an email telling me to contact them via the phone number and she said, "it's just an automated email system that doesn't know that we didn't make the app. Please call Apple. I have their phone number for you." So, knowing that Apple did NOT make this app, but willing to call anyways, I called the phone number they gave me. Turns out, it's the number to AppleCare. Not helpful. So, Wired magazine has been billing my credit card (via iTunes) and I cannot get the product that I've paid for. Theft..Version: 3.5
✓ Wired app very disappointingI had 30 mins spare at a Clapham Junction, walking towards the newsstand to by wired I stopped and thought "no, won't waste another tree buying the paper one I'll download wired and read it on the train". But each magazine issue is 380MB ! And I've been downloading on my quite fast 3G connection for coming on an hour now and less than halfway, I'll be home before it completes ! You also can't tell what magazine is as the pictures load so slowly and don't give you the year...yes so far I'm am totally unimpressed and people having to pay again for issues already paid for really shocks me. I'll come back in a year or two see if they have it sorted then...Version: 1.8
✓ Houston, we have a problemI love WIRED but there are fundamental problems with this app. Firstly is the fact that you now have to re-download the mag each time you want to read it. And the files are not small. It takes about 5 minutes to download, and if you close the app and do something else for a while, you have to download it again! The content is still great, and the multimedia is a step in the right direction, but the product is not perfect yet..Version: 0
✓ After viewing pages upon pages upon pages of Ads I deleted the AppI hate websites that has ad pop-ups and this iPad version of "wired" is absolutely horrendous in terms of interactive Ads that almost hold you ransom on a page. For example the lexus ad that makes you find the vehicles on the page, prevents you from turning the page. On most pages it takes, on average, 3 or 4 swipes to turn a page. On some articles, swiping up doesn't even finish the article so the last sentence on the page leaves you hanging? Then from frustration of being locked on one "Ad" page, I hit home to get out of the magazine to find that even though I did not exit the magazine, the magazine re-starts from the beginning with the automatic pop-up video of the magazine cover. Since the business model of this magazine is from advertisers, I would recommend that the iPad version of "Wired" should be free; and even then I am not sure I would go through this horrendous experience again. Reading magazines on the iPad may be a nice concept, but holding a 2 pound ipad like a magazine creates new meaning to carpal tunnel syndrome "iPad carpal"..Version: 1.7
✓ Please stop using the word 'fix'For this to be 'fixed' there would have to be an improvement however all of the editions of this magazine that I and many many other people have paid for are still not available to us. Your website is still blithely ignoring the issues that you have created which is staggering considering the articles that you have published on the online community and it's backlash for poor customer treatment. At least have the decency to call this an 'Update to reset our App Store rating' rather than a 'fix'.Version: 1.8
✓ DO NOT UPDATE WIRED APP UPDATE 1.6!I just downloaded the Wired Mag app update and now wish I didn't. All the issues I previously purchased (and that's EVERY one that has been made available for the iPad) is now GONE! I refuse to purchase each issue again as it's pretty expensive once you add it up (and the app is supposedly designed to keep track of every purchase so you can archive past issues and/or reload them as desired). Please WIRED, fix this seriously buggy app update and RESTORE all my purchased digital issues again ASAP!!!.Version: 1.6
✓ Update process wipes old issuesWhen you update the app it wipes your old issues. This is completely unacceptable given the size of the download, if you want to download the issue again. You should be able to archive the issues to your computer, certainly not have to download them all over again each update. If there was a better method of storing back issues the rating would be far higher as its a good magazine and a nice app. But sorry, if buying the latest issue means I have to blow nearly a gig of my monthly data allowance to get the two issues I have already bought back on my iPad, they can shove it..Version: 0
✓ Took my money and ran......I tried to purchase the latest issue (18.11). It took my money (it currently says I've purchased it) but it won't let me download it to read it. If this is a regular problem I wouldn't recommend anyone use this app. Every time I attempt to download the issue it tells me an error has occurred and to try downloading later. I've been trying off and on for the last 3 days with no luck..Version: 0
✓ More garbage, v1.8Still missing all the issues I paid for - how ironic that a magazine that prides itself on showcasing technology can't get an iPad app to work. Way to fail, Wired. Zero stars..Version: 1.8
✓ Great preview but not enough depth for the costThis app demonstrates the future of the publishing industry, if you want to see what 10 years in the future looks like download it. But the problem is that its only a preview, a preview at £2.39 which frankly is a rip off. The content is brilliant yet it's far too short for what they are charging. The downloader inside the app is also rather flaky and I found myself having to make 3 attempts to download a 300mb issue, the resume feature did not work at all, very frustrating..Version: 0
✓ Great content, but...The iPad adaptation of Wired Magazine is nothing short of spectacular, and the content is consistently great. However, the app has consistently lost my purchases every time I have upgraded to a new version. Wired support have been understanding and have issued -- get this -- CHEQUES as a refund every single time. However, the cheques are US dollar and cost me extra money to cash, and Wired do not and will not include the taxes paid in their refund. The app design and content is great. The management of purchased issues is unforgivably bad. The support team are friendly and quick to respond, but are not flexible enough to do anything about the differences between Canada and the US. I cannot purchase any more issues, regardless of how much I like the magazine -- and I like it a lot..Version: 1.7
✓ Stuck at "Updating Library" (updated)Totally unusable. Deleted, re-installed, and on first-launch, it hangs forever on "Updating Library...". Contacted WIRED Magazine Support, no answer yet. The version of this app should be pulled from the App Store until this is fixed, don't know how it was approved. (UPDATE: Sept 28 2011 - it still had the problem but once I deleted and re-installed again - it works, so try that. WIRED support says this is a result of the In-App Purchase outage at Apple).Version: 3.1
✓ Re-WiredAfter really enjoying the first issue, I was really looking forward to this latest edition. I was also pleased to see that they had adopted the in-app purchase model so that only one icon is required on the springboard rather than one for each issue. What I did not expect though was to have to download the first copy (already paid for) again - all 500+MB of it! Not happy. Unlike other reviewers though, I downloaded it with the only issue being a lag (or freeze after the first 4.2MB had downloaded, it eventually started downloading again and installed without issue). Latest issue is good, cheaper, but also a little lighter on content. Overall, I expect more good things to come..Version: 0
✓ Theft! Rubbish!If you are unlucky enough to buy an electronic issue of Wired, sit down and read it right now. Pretty much as soon as you finish reading it it will be deleted and you will never see it again. Customer support? Forget it. It doesn't exist. I bought the first issue that they released. Looked good. I think. Didn't get to read it all. I installed the iPad os update and from that point on the magazine I had already bought started saying click to buy. I contacted customer support and got one email back that read "download it again". How? You can't! You can download the app again but you wont get your magazines back. Anyone who does not value their customers does not deserve your hard earned cash. Please do not support their poor workmanship and greed. There are far better digital magian available. Zinio for example stores your purchases online so you can get them back anytime and on any machine. That's fair. Wired you owe me a magazine and I won't be supporting you until you put this right. I've written to you asking for support and you have chosen to ignore me. From experience the only way I know how to hit back at being mistreated when normal channels are ignored is to hit you in the pocket, the only place you will listen. Make one customer happy and he'll tell 10 people how good you are. Upset one customer and he'll tell 100 people how bad you are. How many people do you think I'll turn away from you when they read the truth about your online magazine scam?.Version: 0
✓ Makes it impossible to unsubscribeWarning before you buy! They make it as difficult to unsubscribe so much I believe this is illegal..Version: 5.7
✓ More CrudI will say overall it's not bad. There are some really neat things that pop up. But overall it's just bloated and distracting. And overpriced. It's just not readable. Back to the drawing board Wired....Version: 0
✓ Innovation 5* - re-downloading June issue 1*Great app - unreal content. So many +++'s, BUT getting me to re-download last months ed is a little rich! 500Mb is a fair whack on a single download, but to do it twice @ expensive download rates isn't great thinking. Are we going to have to do this again when you next decide to upgrade the app? BUT a great mag and a great exposition of iPad's features!.Version: 0
✓ Unnecessarily clumsy and buggy for Tech magazineI’ve only just started using it but there are broken links, I am sent into loops if I try to contact Support and menus appear and disappear seemingly at random. I had given up trying to get the current edition after DLing the next month edition and could find no link at all then after trying to shut down the App suddenly there was a home page icon visible which had defied all my attempts at locating it. This is reinventing the wheel, but not round as we know it..Version: 5.2
✓ New version keeps logging me outThe new version keeps logging me out so I don't see my subscription. It's really annoying having to log back in!.Version: 4.0.1
✓ Now this is irony: Internet isn’t print!I’m not giving this app one star because it does work. The problem is that it seem to think it’s print media. On an electronic device, you need to adapt to the device. Others mention no landscape, but that doesn’t bother me. No, what bothers me is there is no way to zoom, no way to copy and paste, no way to do anything other than view images: sometimes showing pictures, usually just full page images of text. And for some reason, the first page's text is significantly bigger than the other pages. This means, for me, the text on the first page is somewhat bigger than it needs to be, while the text on the following pages is significantly smaller than I find comfortable. The best handling is kindle, where you can increase font size; PDF is worse but you can at least zoom in. Well, with this app you can neither increase font size, nor zoom in. Sadly ironic for a magazine that is all about technology!.Version: 4.6.8
✓ Latest Release - V1.8, Still An Unmitigated DisasterDoes anyone test software updates or do you just leave it all to the consumer ? Since updating, this app when launched displays monthly content ok but when I select one, a blank, grey, featureless screen. Please, stop updating this app until you can provide a version that does not destroy the existing editions installed.Version: 1.8
✓ Surprisingly OrdinaryI bought his after reading some of the good reviews and hearing it review well on the appslappy podcast. I don't really know what I was expecting, but what I got was what I can only describe as very ordinary. The anticipated interactivity seems to be related the scrolling in most cases I've come across so far, and usually it's to see images that would usually be inset into a printed page anyway. Articles are short and just skim the surface, and the whole thing is full of ads. When I've paid this much for an online magazine, I really don't expect to get bombarded by ads., specially as most are US focused so don't relate to me in Australia anyway. The one bit of interactivity that I thought might be interesting was Mars showing where missions has been in a format you could spin round. However that ended up as such a user challenge I gave up in the end wishing they'd instead just put in a map and text boxes pointing to the areas. In summary if this is the best that we can expect from an interactive magazine, I worry for their future. I guess if I was to be synical I would say that there is a reason that magazines are laid out how they are. Clear access to concise information. Adding interaction where none is really required is not engaging, just annoying that it is hidden in the first place..Version: 0
✓ Don't Subscribe Until They Fix This AppThe auto download doesn't work. Despite having a subscription I was charged to download the last issue (double charged actually - once for the monthly subscription and a second time for downloading the magazine within Newsstand). What's really annoying is to read Conde Naste's propaganda about saving money by buying a monthly ($1.99) or annual ($19.99) subscription -- yeah right!! I'm only glad I didn't pay for an annual subscription that doesn't work. Just for the record, it's not the Newsstand app because my National Geographic and Popular Science subscriptions work perfectly..Version: 3.5
✓ Bugs now mostly fixed, but forced re-downloads are a painForced to re-download about 5 Gigs of data after the recent update deleted all issue data from the app. Also have been charged again for one issue which I purchased and had installed previously. Not very impressive..Version: 1.6
✓ Weird...… Upgraded to iTunes 10.5 and then synced my iPad (iOS v4.x) and it automatically came up with 'Do you really want to remove the Wired App?' Hit the OK as it kept coming up and thought I'd just reinstall. Now Wired doesn't even show up in the list??? Deleted and redownloaded in iTunes and STILL doesn't even show up in my list of apps so I CAN sync? Why would their icon change to match the current magazine cover? Weird. This funky orange text on light grey background is making my eyes burn as I type. Would expect more from a Magazine that makes it's living with Graphic Artists, etc. Hopefully my subscription is intact....Version: 3.5
✓ DO NOT PURCHASEThese upgrades delete your downloaded editions forcing you to re-download Gb's of data. IF, and it's a big "IF", it downloads at all. It took me 5 attempts and over 2gb of data to regain an edition I had already installed on my iPad. Their customer support is an absolute joke. They email you a link to the Apple iPad support webpage. The download issue IS NOT fixed. Wired magazine is fantastic. Unfortunately they can only write about tech, they can't deliver it..Version: 0
✓ A Good first effortFirst time I've read Wired Magazine (in any format). Some of the content I really enjoyed. Content wise, the only disapointment was paying $5.99 for a magazine where most of the articles were only a couple paragraphs long. Technology wise. Adobe's software was very poor. So many times I had to go back to the contents page, to move between articles. As for the Mars explorer interactive thing. It was appalling. Controlling the viewing of probe details was just painful. The technology was most definitely not worth $5.99..Version: 0
✓ Used to be great!I've read wired since it first came out, starting of course in print form, and now on the iPad, but no more. The mag has turned more into a video game than a provider of information. While there are still some excellent articles, each month seems to have turned into a contest of what new gimmick can be added to an article. This no doubt causes the crashes others have complained about. There are so many swooping animations, redirects to web sites, swipes up, down, double clicks and multiple choice selections, the experience is like playing a maze game. They seem to have lost the fact an excellent mag provides excellent information, not just gimmicks..Version: 3.7
✓ Why So Crappy?Excellent magazine with a super crappy iPhone app. It is extremely ironic..Version: 5.7
✓ Does not work sine ios5Very frustrating. Cannot access my past issues since the Wired app was replaced by Newsstand on ios5. The app just hangs! Shame on you Conde Nast..Version: 3.5
✓ Great until the boobs appeared!I have enjoyed reading this up until this months when suddenly I cannot download the latest magazine I have paid for! I keep trying in the hope that someone will fix this. I wonder if it has something to do with the UK launch if Wired? However, a pity if the American app is no longer supported! Please can the developer sort this out? Annoyingly, there is no in-app customer service link - would have been helpful!.Version: 1.4.1
✓ Weak, ad-filled, over-priced attempt at a digital magazineSorry, this isn't going to cut it for me. The only thing done well with this digital mag was the navigation. Yes, I like that I can swipe left to right, then up and down for longer content. That makes sense. And the simple, one page features like "How a team of commandos would free captured civilians" are smartly designed, too: ten steps, inviting you to tap on each of the numbers. The image and content change as you tap through. Nice. That makes sense. But honestly, that's it. There's nothing else new here. A few videos, a few interactive graphics, and that's it. The real kicker? It was five bucks, and it was filled with ads. FILLED with ads. I don't care if a few of the ads contain a little video for me to watch. They're still ads. And if I'm paying five bucks for digital content, I shouldn't have to look at them. (Oh, and five bucks for one magazine is over-priced, too.) This was a weak attempt. And I won't be buying digital magazines if this is the standard....Version: 0
✓ Very Impressive App, Pricing Just Needs to Better Compare to PrintWIRED is easily the most impressive magazine on the iPad. It's almost like you can experience a few select articles and ads in ways that weren't nearly as polished or well-integrated in the past. I'll commend WIRED for not over-compressing the images or video in the app. The extremely high quality media is gorgeous on the iPad. Readers of magazines and blogs aren't used to everything being so stunning. WIRED is the best showcase app for the iPad, in my opinion, since everything is so high quality and there are a lot of things in here that magazines won't do and no websites have done nearly as stunning a job at doing. I hope WIRED can continue to think of new ways to experience articles digitally in every issue, with each a slight evolution of the last. EDIT: Normally, I won't give apps one-star reviews, but I'm disappointed that the price of the July issue is $3.99. This would be okay if there was a way to subscribe annually for $15-$20, but there are no subscription issues. I don't want the future of iPad magazines to cost $50 a year, so I won't bring my rating back up until the pricing is better addressed..Version: 0
✓ DonI just downloaded the latest update to the Wired app and when I tried to read my magazines they were all wiped! There's no content on my iPad, even though I had 7 magazines already purchased! Please fix this bug and give me my magazines back! UPDATE: Just got an email back from Wired... if you simply try to "Buy" your previously purchased issues again you will be able to do so without paying a second time. Just click on the "Buy" button then you will be prompted to enter your iTunes password again. After this you will receive an alert telling you that you have already purchased the item and can download it again for free. The only trouble is, you've got to sit through the entire download again..Version: 1.6
✓ Half a gig in size and same price as the print mag? Scrap the video ads!!!I really love what the talented peeps at WIRED have done with the help of Adobe (ironically). It's slick, packed with additional multimedia goodies and a bunch of objects you can rotate around (which seems to be the standard for "enhanced" iPad images). However, I find the following very frustrating: - why is it over 500 megabytes in size!? How hard was WIRED trying to minimize that size? - why does it cost as much as the print version? This one doesn't need to be printed, shipped, moved on store shelves etc., so why the same price? - if it's because of all the enhanced content, they could almost convince me. However, a lot of the ads come with heavy video files that take up unnecessary space on my harddrive. I don't want these video ads on my harddrive - they should ONLY stream off the internet. I refuse to have to store ads for an app charging full price. And certainly not knowing that these bloody ads are taking up precious memory. Thank you..Version: 0
✓ Doesn’t work!Signed in with my wired account I have a subscription for. It doesn’t let me read anything. Tried signing in through Apple News and it says I don’t have a subscription. I’m unsubscribing..Version: 5.7
✓ Just ok... really!I'm not sure why there's so many 5 stars review. The app is just ok. Embedded video? multiple photos per acticle... Nothing really exciting or new. The ONLY interesting feature is the interactive Mars Map. Look at GQ and other magazine, they don't have interactive maps. But they at least have some basic feature that's lacking in this app. 1. Text version for each article for easy reading. 2. Photos of articles should be able to go full screen and zoom. The price is crazy. People are just buying it to check it out. They really need to rethink about subscription fee and standard issue fee. Not worth it! Kevin.Version: 0
✓ Bizarre messThe price is still too expensive, and it's not even out at the same time as the newsstand version. Ridiculous. First of all, the actual magazine is quite nice on the iPad. I mean it's okay - same text, same content, some fancy schmancy interactive stuff but overall, it's just the same but it has TERRIBLE navigation. It might not sound like a big thing, but not putting something at the end of articles (which you navigate DOWN through, not left to right) to say that's the end is damned annoying as you swipe down on every single page to see if there's any more to it. Overall though, the reasons I'm not bothering with any more issues is that I was in America last month and got this Will Ferrell issue at a newsstand. Weeks ago. Seriously. So why would I wait and save, OOOH a single dollar to buy this version?.Version: 0
✓ Non-functional rip-offI have subscribed and paid for Wired twice. It does not recognise my account. Customer service are utterly useless..Version: 5.7
✓ Great Magazine, app may need some fixesApp is great. i love all the articles. its so much fun to read this magazine in digital form. Just have a few things to note. unfortunately, the magazine is a 500mb download, so you can only download it in the safe net of a wifi network. This is due to the mass amount of video and audio content. No way to download off your 3G connection. If you have a slow connection you are going to have to be patient while the magazine is being downloaded. Not only is the magazine slow to download, but you will find that your month in and out wired magazine collection will soon take up all the valuable space on your ipads hard drive. From what i can tell there is no way to save the magazine off the ipad onto a computer or event delete it. Would like to see these issues sorted or addressed in one way or form, otherwise as my heading suggest great magazine..Version: 0
✓ Not perfect but improving...Wired seem to be listening to complaints about the iPad version of the magazine but there are still a number of problems new users should consider. - Firstly there are still a large number of ads in the magazine, I found one edition which had about 200 megs of ad content making up the 500meg download... - There also still seem to be problems with some updates taking away access to back issues, when this happened to me wired support suggested that I removed the app and reinstalling it before trying to re-download an issue. This fixed the problem for me but I'm always really worried about being charged again when i try to re-download issues... On the bright side the app is now much more polished and the embedded media don't seem to be annoying in the latest issue..Version: 1.7
✓ Doesn't work 2I like Paul.xyz also bought the latest issue, November and cannot download it. Pop up error message "Error downloading" Please try again later. Waiting for a reply from Wired Magazine support....Version: 1.4.1
✓ Bad purchasing experienceI downloaded the free app a week ago and checked the preview issue. Even after reading some criticisms regarding the size of the issues and the awkward double purchases required if the application was updated, I wanted to check a real issue, so I tried to download August 2010 issue. It could probably be more frustrating, but it was frustrating enough already. I tried to download the application dozens of times just to get a "regrant failed" message. "Regrant"? It was the first time I was downloading it! In the end I needed to completely uninstall the app, just to redownload and reinstall it, in order to get the August issue, which was supposedly already available through the version of the app I had installed. I'm not sure if I will buy more issues, it depends on the "regrant experience" (when I read the issue, delete it from the iPad and try to buy it again). I expect having access to the whole library of mags I buy, but the comments are not very reassuring about this point..Version: 0
✓ Good magazine but app has problems and support is badI'm an iPad edition subscriber but I've had many problems with this app that have left me very frustrated. When launching the App I'm prompted for my iTunes password, the screen and keyboard will then rotate making it difficult to type my password. If I get my password entered correctly or incorrectly the App will still fail to load and I'm dumped back out to the home screen. I've re-installed the App and re-downloaded my issues once, and while this fixed the problem for a short while it came back after a couple of days. Re-downloading issues is something I try to avoid as here in New Zealand internet connections are typically capped, sometimes as low as 5GB a month. I've not been able to access or read new issues for several weeks now which is very frustrating. Wired's support page for this app doesn't let me complete the form and submit a request for support instead it gives an error that I must submit a valid city though there is no field for city! Overall I recommend you try this app with the free content available but stick with buying the paper version until these bugs are sorted out and the app is better supported..Version: 3.0
✓ Video issuesI love this app in fact whilst I was waiting for my iPad to be delivered this app was one thing i couldn't wait to load, I was also very impressed with the June issue, just imagine a magazine with interactive elements, sound clips, videos, even some of the adverts are cool with links and video. Why rate it a mere two stars then? Because when I loaded the July issue I was again impressed by the quality and content but none of the videos worked and checking the June issue the videos had stopped working on that. I have sent feedback but haven't heard anything. I really hope they sort this out ASAP because it is spoiling the love..Version: 0
✓ You're kidding right?This app proves one thing and one thing only... tech people should not be allowed to develop interfaces. Is this app trying to be a magazine or a webpage? It took me about 15 minutes of flicking through nothing but ads to workout it's trying to be both. What idiot thought that was a great idea? Swiping like a magazine flicks you through articles and ads but to read the article you scroll up and down. This is a complete joke of an interface. The content is as good as what I'm used to so it gets two stars for that but you would do far far better reading off the website..Version: 0
✓ Bad app - digital subscription not foundAre you kidding me? Can access the website but the app claimed it couldn’t find my subscription info on both iPhone (iOS 16.4.1) and iPad (iPadOS 16.5).Version: 5.7
✓ Very little improvement since June...Slow and cumbersome downloads - June edition was over 500MBs and July is still over 300MBs... this is way too big for a digital magazine download. Supposing we continue to buy the magazine for a year then we'll have maxed out close to 5GBs of our iPad storage just for a single magazine app!... surely this can't be the future of the publishing industry? Considering the sheer number of advertising spots in theses editions too the per-issue price should be much lower than $3.99. I hope Wired are paying attention to these negative reviews because they're more or less spot-on. If August continues like this then I won't be buying again. There's still no indication of a continuation page to each article so readers constantly feel as though they're navigation is all over the place. No zoom, no selectable text, no way to make notes or add bookmarks for future referencing... ie the whole Wired App experience is counter-intuitive to what we've come to appreciate with the iPad. Flattened PNGs via the Adobe InDesign compiler makes for a dreadful digital magazine experience. Also as others have noted below... you have to re-download the previous edition which will burn up another 500MB of your bandwidth. Shameful that a business like Wired could have put out such a shoddy and ill-concevived App..Version: 0
✓ Promised so much, delivered so little.Incredibly disappointing. It's like a giant, slow, expensive PDF. They touted it as something revolutionary and it's a waste of time, money and precious space (500MB). Jobs should place a call over there and whip them into shape for delivering such a poor magazine on such an amazing device. Better yet, Wired should apologize and give us all the next issue for free..Version: 0
✓ I am so angry with Wired tonightLost all the issues purchased. I was just about laying down after a long day and wanted to finish reading the march issue and it was gone ! I have to buy it again? No way! I'm done! WIRED : I'm not buying you anymore. Anyways, the same articles are online couple of weeks after ....Version: 1.6
✓ Ham-handed hacksWired continues to drop the ball with this app. Yes, you can redownload previously purchased issues just buy hitting "buy". However, I had three issues on my device (totaling 1GB) and they all had to redownload and reinstall. Dreadful waste of time. Also, I worry that I've now somehow lost a GB of storage on my iPad with corrupted duplicate issues. Love the mag, HATED the technical issues with this app since DAY 1. Get your selves together..Version: 0
✓ Can’t see my digital subscriptionWhat is the point of this app? Literally every other magazine app works with a digital subscription—Wired needs a proper app! Who uses a browser??? What is this, 1996? Garbage!.Version: 5.7
✓ Amazingly bad appThe stories are great. And yet the app is so bad that I unsubscribed. This from a subscriber who started from Vol 1 Issue 1..Version: 5.7
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