Five short links on designing for the iPad

Is there a good iPad magazine app yet?

• WIRED on iPad: Just like a Paper Tiger… – It’s the 1990s (CD shovelware) all over again…
• iPad News Apps review – One analysis of news apps for the iPad, from somebody at the German Press Association newslab.
• Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5? – So why didn’t they choose HTML5 and build a custom viewer application around WebKit?
• Bonnier’s Popular Science+ Debuts on iPad as the Magazine of Tomorrow – The six principles that underlie the Mag+ digital platform: silent mode, fluid motion, designed pages, defined beginning and end, issue-based delivery, and advertising as content.
• Time Magazine Previews Updates to Apple iPad App – Comparing a rush job (“Project Noah”) with having time to see how users interact with a device.