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It's on the App Store .
It's on the App Store .
Only for iPads, under BeoMagazine or Bang and Olufsen.
Just downloaded the first magazine under this app -- it is BIG, and on my iPad 1 seems unusable (i.e. I can't get the magazine to open !). About to try the iPad Mini with iOS 7 and see what happens ...
The new iPad BeoMagazine is well done. It does suffer from one problem. Many of the products featured have been deleted and are no longer available. Well maybe only the white Beocom 2 is unavailable. I guess I was still thinking of the website.
It's on the App Store .
Only for iPads, under BeoMagazine or Bang and Olufsen.
Just downloaded the first magazine under this app -- it is BIG, and on my iPad 1 seems unusable (i.e. I can't get the magazine to open !). About to try the iPad Mini with iOS 7 and see what happens ...
Works fine on my iPad 1. Try deleting it and reinstalling it, sounds like a corrupted download.
Its very slick, works like Engadget's Distro magazine, looks like the same app to display the content.
It's on the App Store .
Only for iPads, under BeoMagazine or Bang and Olufsen.
Just downloaded the first magazine under this app -- it is BIG, and on my iPad 1 seems unusable (i.e. I can't get the magazine to open !). About to try the iPad Mini with iOS 7 and see what happens ...
Works fine on my iPad 1. Try deleting it and reinstalling it, sounds like a corrupted download.
Its very slick, works like Engadget's Distro magazine, looks like the same app to display the content.
Thanks for the tip !
Elsewhere I said ...
Started downloading my copy (iPad v1) to find it is in two parts, an App and then a separate 229MB magazine ... not sure a private B&O magazine stand is a smart approach - why not leverage all the eyeballs looking at Apple's NewsStand ?
... and another advantage of leveraging Apple's massive data centres is that the download would be faster !!! ETA is 40 minutes, and so it will arrive after I have gone, still could be some nice night time reading 🙂
Just a little technical note...
Apple's newsstand, unlike iBook isn't an app, it's a special folder. Apps that the developer mark as Newsstand will automatically be placed in this folder and their icon will be replaced by the cover of the latest issue. But newsstand magazines are just (almost) normal apps.
You can see this as most magazine app have a very different interface. Some have a similar interface as you can buy ready made apps and customise it. Which is what B&O has done.
Since iOS 6, apple can host downloadable content related to an in-app purchase. Wether the app is a Newsstand app or now.
Other than that the app worked fine on my iPad 1.
Thanks for the background !
Just downloaded the first magazine under this app -- it is BIG, and on my iPad 1 seems unusable (i.e. I can't get the magazine to open !). About to try the iPad Mini with iOS 7 and see what happens ...
As a sideline, well impressed with the new iPad Air that I picked up yesterday. Seriously worth some consideration. Makes my older (large) iPad feel weighty and dated. Basically, it's now the big brother of the iPad Mini. It's also incredibly fast. Feels about 3x faster than my old iPad 2! No slowdown on anything.
I also had a few issues with the B&O mag on my iPad 2 - kept downloading. Had to download, in full, three times, before I could read it.
I'm intrigued why they called it the "Air", do you think they have another iPad variant up their sleeve ?
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