The Future of Magazine Publishing





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Wow, that is some really exciting content! I totally agree with you, and I think I'd likely subscribe to more magazines if they utilized this sort of interactivity!
Killer post Andy. I might just have to post this on my blog as well to help spread the word. Rob Haggart from APhotoEditor.com came and spoke to our ASMP group here in Santa Fe last weekend and he talked at length about how the media world is changing and how still photography is going to be a key component going forward.
This is the demo that did it for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntyXvLnxyXk
The funny thing is that Wired uses Flash (via AIR) which doesn't run on iPad (or iPhone, for that matter) ;)
Marcus, that is kind of funny, actually. So are you saying that this demo is something that absolutely won't work in reality until they re-write the app for the iPad?
Yes, they would also need to write an iPad-App, especially now that Apple has essentially forbidden cross-compiling for the iPhoneOS version 4.
For explanation: With the new Flash CS5 you could write a Flash app and have that application compiled as a native iPad/iPhone app also. But Apple has with the current developer license agreement for the iPhone OS version (which will be used by iPhone and iPad) forbidden the development with other programming languages save those used/permitted by Apple. I don't know if Apple sticks with that license agreement, but at the moment this means you have to develop at least two versions (three if you count the upcoming new Windows Phone 7) of your application if you want the functionality to be consistent on all platforms.
It is a little annoying.
P. S.: HTML 5 is not there yet for this kind of functionality. Browser support needs to improve a lot to completely supplant Flash.
The hardware was an HP Slate.