Wired Magazine: Now On The iPad
Wired Magazine’s new iPad application is essentially an issue of Wired you can read on your iPad. Which is pretty much all I need to hear to get excited. Although saying that Wired’s on the iPad now is the exact same thing as saying, “Wired Magazine just got much more expensive and harder to read! Also, unlike now, when you drop it you break it entirely!”
Below is some sweet, sweet video of the iPad/Wired combo platter in action.
While the iPad at this point refuses to promote Flash, it’s more than happy to promote the fact that the magazine runs on Adobe AIR. Interesting double standard, Apple.
Mashable had some nice observations that I completely missed, namely: the fact that the magazine can be turned 360, hand gesture navigation, dual axis navigation (which I do not understand), and Twitter/Facebook integration. I must admit, the idea of highlighting and tweeting text directly from an issue of a magazine out to your friends is pretty damn cool.
I’m still skeptical as to whether or not we even need an iPad, but hey, let’s hope we keep getting impressed by these apps.
