Photo District News at Mac App Store analyse

The content of the magazine is interesting and worth the money. What bothers me is the fact that it is impossible to read the issues offline. Every time I travel and have time to read I get an error message. Reported it two times but the support didnt came up with an update since February 2014. Thats not what I call customer satisfaction orientated management.

Edit - Got an email after requesting support directly from Texterity that asked me to try and view the issue again. Dont know what they did, but it works great now. For the record, what I see on my phone isnt blocky at all. Looks great! Will be buying more issues... Downloaded app last night and ran through the previews. Then attempted to purchase the Feb 2012 issue. Money was taken, purchase shows, the "restore" option is allowed - but no magazine. Subsequently tried on desktop with no luck. Deleted and reinstalled with no luck. Reported issue early this morning and at 4PM EST, still no luck. My advice is stay away until apparent issues are resolved. iPhone 4 running ios5.

0 stars. Waiting for years to see PDN on iOS. What an enormous let down. 1st, none of the news wire links are working. Then, downloaded an issue. Youve got to be kidding. $5 for pixelated images, so bad I cant even read some of it. For a magazine about pro photography, theyve completely dropped the ball on image formatting and digital reproduction. Im embarrassed for them really. The print mag has seemed to be going downhill to the point where I let my subscript lapse. Now this. Really sad what is happening to pro journalism. This use to be a great mag. Looking less so everyday. I hate the rise of the amateur....

caveat number one: search for PDN doesnt show up, but ok, I managed to find the app under its full title. I was really excited to get my favorite magazine delivered to the ipad. The app only shows low resolution images of the magazine - what a shame to present this kind of quality to industry professionals.

Yeah it does the trick. The text is a little small on iPad if youre holding it horizontally (theres a limit to how close you can pinch it in), but vertically is fine, swiping page by page (youre just missing the spreads that way). After spending so much time with Flipboard its a little disappointing to tap a photo and not be able to see it enlarged, but I guess you wouldnt be able to do that with the print version either. Im not mad at it. But I hope they work on taking advantage of the technology. Also, the Newswire feeds are doubled and the Photos of the Day are stretched (or squeezed) to fit. Not that Id spend much time reading intermittent press releases about random photo competitions...

I love the magazine, but the iPad version is disappointing. NOT worth the hefty subscription fee when the small text is hard to read and cant be made larger. My advice unfortunately is ... avoid this!

Goodbye to my print subscription to PDN, the large, bulky folio-sized version, relegated to a static space unless you like to lug around a bulky magazine. I consume magazines on the go, and the new iPad newsstand version of PDN is easy to navigate, photos pinch-up to reveal their detail and impact, and the text options allow for greater enjoyment and easier access of an essential photography periodical. I like it. Kudos for the effort, with thoughtful attention to how the reader/viewer can best use the content.