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"However, what strikes me most about the Wired app is how amazingly similar it is to a multimedia CD-ROM from the 1990's. This is not a compliment and actually turns out to be a fairly large problem.
The only real differentiation between the Wired application and a multimedia CD-ROM is the delivery mechanism: you download it via the App Store versus buying a CD-ROM at the now defunct Egg Head store at your local strip mall. For all of the interactivity that was touted in the Flash prototype, what we've really ended up with is a glorified slide show. Instead of the 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons you might have been used to on those old CD-ROMs of yore, you instead swipe left and right to change pages (well *cough* images of pages).
There are certain interactive elements to the articles, but - and I apologize to all of the people who put in a lot of back breaking work into this - they're pretty lame."