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The Wired mission is to tell the world something they've never heard before in a way they've never seen before. It's about turning new ideas into everyday reality. It's about seeding our community of influencers with the ideas that will shape and transform our collective future. Wired readers want to know how technology is changing the world, and they're interested in big, relevant ideas, even if those ideas challenge their assumptions—or blow their minds. Wired readers are generally familiar with computers and the Internet, but this is definitely not a computer magazine—Wired won't teach you how to upgrade your RAM. Instead, it's a magazine about science, art, adventure, online culture, business, philosophy... and bright shiny beautiful gadgets.
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Chris Kirby
Ideas to help you figure out where I live Finally had enough of the e-mails exhorting me to sign up for digital edition allegedly included in my subscription. By now it's ridiculously obvious the digital subscription process doesn't work in Canada (outside of the US?) so this is for you Wired: please stop spamming me to undertake your monthly exercise in frustration. Here are some ideas if you're having trouble figuring out the country I live in: - Somewhere in my subscriber record is a column named Country. Try adding something like WHERE Country != "Canada" to the code that creates your mailing list. - My print subscription comes from somewhere in Ontario, i.e. not the US. These people have obviously figured out the country-specific mailing thing. Perhaps they can help you sort out who should get your e-mails. - I paid for my subscription in Canadian dollars. Not always definitive (I'm sure there are thousands of Americans who prefer to buy their magazine subscriptions in foreign currency) but a strong hint. Hopefully one or more of these are helpful to improve your marketing efforts.
Matt Dalzell
Any advice for linking print subscription? Add me to the list of folks unable to link their print subscription to the Android app. Previously linked it to our iPad without any issue. Running in to the same issue as others - can log in to the Wired site without any problem, but same credentials will not work in the Android app. Keep getting invalid credentials, can't find my subscription and states my subscription is already linked when trying to create a new account using my account ID. Looks like others have had this same issue and have been able to eventually get the issue resolved. Any insights you can pass along to the rest of us having the same issue? Is it a Wired or Google Play issue? Getting the same run around with canned responses from Wired support as how to how to fix the issue, none of which have helped.
Joshua Jackson
Absolutely Inferior to iPad Version The iPad digital edition of Wired is 10x better than how it's done for Android. On iOS, it has integrated features that make sense for a print-style periodical in a digital medium (embedded videos, alternate ways to display data, animations). This version appears to simply be a PDF slideshow, the lazy way of making a digital magazine. How terribly difficult would even a direct port have been? Or is it dependent on the magazine being its own app that is simply under a Newsstand folder, which Play Magazines seems incapable of doing? For what Wired made it to be (magazine PDF slideshow), it does what it's supposed to. But it lacks all of the features that make Wired worth a digital subscription.
AdMan The Lab Rat
NOT HAPPY I AM A PRINT SUBSCRIBER (12 Years) - For years us Android folks have been waiting for digital access, Conde Nast rolled it out to iOS users first. Finally it's available for Android and I get messages like : "This email is registered but a subscription is not found" and "This Name is registered but a subscription is not found", same for my "Address" and my "Account#". I can not believe the digital subscriptions rates, they are displaying outrageous sums of cash 5.99/Month, $19.99 Year - OUCH. Wish I could tell you to sign up for the Print version and you will get the Digital for free and you will if you can access it. I thought Digital media would be a money saving alternative but at those prices it's less expensive to recycle each month's issue.
Christian L
Really? I've been getting emails for months from you guys saying I'm missing out on digital access that comes with my print subscription. Every time I get the email I figure you guys have fixed it so I can finally enter in my subscription info and actually get access, but it's a big NO! Maybe it's because I'm in Canada, maybe it's because I use an Android device, either way it sounds like I'm not missing much. (after reading other's reviews) Still love the paper magazine though. (5 stars for the paper edition)
Melissa Gridley
[Do You Care? Circle One Yes or No] WIRED, seriously--I thought we really had something special, you and me, but I'm beginning to think you don't care anymore. We've been together in print for, what--3 years? Four? Sure, it's been on-and-off, but you were always my first choice, the standard to which I compared all other publications. Now I find out you offer your mobile version to the popular iOS kids and that hot little Kindle for free, while I have to pay a second time for the same content, riddled with ads like you're auctioning your geeky-chic little soul to the highest bidder! I am crushed, WIRED; crushed and bereft. It may be time to reevaluate our relationship, although I hate to think what life would be like without your witty features, brilliant exclusives and penetrating insights. Are we over? Is it time for me to move on? If you still want me, send me a sign (preferably a complementary mobile subscription just a smidge lighter on the advertising, please). If you don't...well, I guess just do nothing. Regretfully yours, ASUS Infinity running Jelly Bean
User reviews
Ideas to help you figure out where I live Finally had enough of the e-mails exhorting me to sign up for digital edition allegedly included in my subscription. By now it's ridiculously obvious the digital subscription process doesn't work in Canada (outside of the US?) so this is for you Wired: please stop spamming me to undertake your monthly exercise in frustration. Here are some ideas if you're having trouble figuring out the country I live in: - Somewhere in my subscriber record is a column named Country. Try adding something like WHERE Country != "Canada" to the code that creates your mailing list. - My print subscription comes from somewhere in Ontario, i.e. not the US. These people have obviously figured out the country-specific mailing thing. Perhaps they can help you sort out who should get your e-mails. - I paid for my subscription in Canadian dollars. Not always definitive (I'm sure there are thousands of Americans who prefer to buy their magazine subscriptions in foreign currency) but a strong hint. Hopefully one or more of these are helpful to improve your marketing efforts.
Any advice for linking print subscription? Add me to the list of folks unable to link their print subscription to the Android app. Previously linked it to our iPad without any issue. Running in to the same issue as others - can log in to the Wired site without any problem, but same credentials will not work in the Android app. Keep getting invalid credentials, can't find my subscription and states my subscription is already linked when trying to create a new account using my account ID. Looks like others have had this same issue and have been able to eventually get the issue resolved. Any insights you can pass along to the rest of us having the same issue? Is it a Wired or Google Play issue? Getting the same run around with canned responses from Wired support as how to how to fix the issue, none of which have helped.
Absolutely Inferior to iPad Version The iPad digital edition of Wired is 10x better than how it's done for Android. On iOS, it has integrated features that make sense for a print-style periodical in a digital medium (embedded videos, alternate ways to display data, animations). This version appears to simply be a PDF slideshow, the lazy way of making a digital magazine. How terribly difficult would even a direct port have been? Or is it dependent on the magazine being its own app that is simply under a Newsstand folder, which Play Magazines seems incapable of doing? For what Wired made it to be (magazine PDF slideshow), it does what it's supposed to. But it lacks all of the features that make Wired worth a digital subscription.
NOT HAPPY I AM A PRINT SUBSCRIBER (12 Years) - For years us Android folks have been waiting for digital access, Conde Nast rolled it out to iOS users first. Finally it's available for Android and I get messages like : "This email is registered but a subscription is not found" and "This Name is registered but a subscription is not found", same for my "Address" and my "Account#". I can not believe the digital subscriptions rates, they are displaying outrageous sums of cash 5.99/Month, $19.99 Year - OUCH. Wish I could tell you to sign up for the Print version and you will get the Digital for free and you will if you can access it. I thought Digital media would be a money saving alternative but at those prices it's less expensive to recycle each month's issue.
Really? I've been getting emails for months from you guys saying I'm missing out on digital access that comes with my print subscription. Every time I get the email I figure you guys have fixed it so I can finally enter in my subscription info and actually get access, but it's a big NO! Maybe it's because I'm in Canada, maybe it's because I use an Android device, either way it sounds like I'm not missing much. (after reading other's reviews) Still love the paper magazine though. (5 stars for the paper edition)
[Do You Care? Circle One Yes or No] WIRED, seriously--I thought we really had something special, you and me, but I'm beginning to think you don't care anymore. We've been together in print for, what--3 years? Four? Sure, it's been on-and-off, but you were always my first choice, the standard to which I compared all other publications. Now I find out you offer your mobile version to the popular iOS kids and that hot little Kindle for free, while I have to pay a second time for the same content, riddled with ads like you're auctioning your geeky-chic little soul to the highest bidder! I am crushed, WIRED; crushed and bereft. It may be time to reevaluate our relationship, although I hate to think what life would be like without your witty features, brilliant exclusives and penetrating insights. Are we over? Is it time for me to move on? If you still want me, send me a sign (preferably a complementary mobile subscription just a smidge lighter on the advertising, please). If you don't...well, I guess just do nothing. Regretfully yours, ASUS Infinity running Jelly Bean
Falls short of the Kindle Fire app So I just switched to a Nexus 7 from the Kindle Fire and was shocked when I set up my Wired subscription on Google Play only to discover that I am basically just getting a PDF of the print edition. The Wired app for Kindle Fire is interactive and nicely formatted for the 7 inch screen. It includes videos, swipeable galleries, and scrollable articles. I get none of those things with this version. Instead I get to clumsily zoom around on a page not formatted for so small a screen. I know that Google isn't at fault here because the copy of Real Simple Magazine that came for free on my Nexus is nicely formatted and interactive, so it clearly isn't a fault of the Play Magazines system. Come on Wired, you guys are all about tech - Get it together.
It's a shame, such a good magazine on such a bad platform I have wired on an iPad mini and just picked up a Nexus 7 to read it. What a let down. No interactivity, no animation, no scrolling, no smart navigation its like going back to reading PDF's. Google need to pickup there act or magazine producers will abandon the Play store in favour of self made apps to bring users the interactive digital content they demand. I hope you are listening.
Free for subscribers. Good luck registering If you are a subscriber trying to access free content on your device, you can ONLY do this through your device. The option for free subscriber access does NOT work from your PC. That said, Conde Nast cannot verify my subscription from the device. Yes, I have a subscription. And an account with Wired customer service. It doesn't help. The system found my account, but couldn't find the subscription. I reentered the account number and my zip code, and was told "something went wrong". Seriously, that was the error message. How informative. I guess I know EXACTLY what to do to fix the problem now. Zero stars for wasting my time. Until Conde Nast fixes their crappy software, don't waste yours.
Needs better page handling more like iOS version It only really needs one thing and I could live with it on my Xoom tablet. FIT THE WIDTH OF ONE PAGE TO THE SCREEN IN LANDSCAPE AND LET ME SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE! Having to zoom in and pan around a page to read an article really sucks. Its immediately apparent that no thought was put into translating the magazine experience to the app which is surprising considering how much Wired gushes about design. I actually bought an iPad2 mainly to read Wired because there was no android version back then. I tried the android version on my Xoom when it first came out and I'm disappointed to see that it doesn't seem to have improved at all since then.
ANOTHER subscription? I've had a print subscription for several years. That subscription AUTOMATICALLY entitles me to the digital version on iTunes AND my Kindle Fire. WHY are you trying to force me to purchase a second subscription just so I can read your magazine on my Android phone? That's really stupid. Don't buy this app, unless you LIKE being sucked dry by these vampires.
Wired UR Fired If I was a FanBoy then you would let me have it FREE! Since we are Android based, Wired feels need to screw over its paying subscribers for some reason. You will never get me buy a "FRUIT" product to get your magazine FREE! I will consider cancelling my print subscription though.
What exactly are we paying to view? I just want to say that I am amazed on what magazines have become over the past 30 yrs....They are nothing less than a paid venue to read commercials,marketing and more marketing. Who wants to read,browse or buy a paper or digital version of marketing crap down my throat!!!😠. Enough said,I am cancelling this waste of time and I will refrain from ever subscribing to magazines.
Penalizing print subscribers Hello... Is anyone home at Google Play? iOS = free, Kindle = free if you're already a print subscriber. Why should I pay twice for the same content? I guess that I'll continue using my iPad for the digital versions until someone over there gets a clue... "Don't be evil", right? IMHO, making people pay twice for the same stuff is evil.
Terrible design A horrid attempt at reducing a great magazine down to sound-byte size paragraphs. I tried reading this on a mobile phone and found no visible way to differentiate worthless, tweet-sized blurbs from relevant articles. It mutated one of my favorite monthly publications into a sewer-dwelling pile of turtle poop. Additionally, the initial login process has more errors than carrot top has freckles. For a tech-based magazine, it's unacceptable. Hire some decent coders and fire your design team.
Not available to Australian subscribers Followed the prompts in the email sent to me by Wired that this was finally available to me on Android, and I get the message - This item isn't available. As a really longtime Wired subscriber (I think I started during year 2) I'm still disappointed that I can't read the digital issue on my Nexus 7. They've never had a problem taking my annual subscription from Australia.
2nd class Update... Finally free with a print subscription. I would rate it higher, but it took way too long to give android users exactly what was offered to iOS and kindle users. I, like many other reviewers, have a print subscription and feel slighted compared to people who own iPads or Kindle Fires. Why should I have to pay twice for the same content? Horrible, Horrible customer service.
This is too hard. As a subscriber to take he magazine, access to an issue is absurdly hard. I have my suvscriprion number as requested by the conde nast email... No, they want an login. I try to set up an accout, it says call customer service. Call? What is 1960? Way too many bugs (acct # diesnt work, account cant set up). Clearly a paper mag markeing dept pretending to ubderstand Internet.
Free to Apple/Amazon Customers, All Others Pay Twice? It seems to me that offering free digital access exclusively to print customers using devices made by 2 manufacturers while openly promoting the benefit as if it applies to everyone shows serious disregard for customers' interests as well as the entire notion of Net Neutrality (an issue likely to be near and dear to the demographic which subscribes to Wired). It also seems remarkably short-sighted given the periodical industry's rapid recent shift from print to digital consumption of content. Disappointing.
Digital Edition is Junk What a terrible job for what is supposed to be a tech-oriented magazine. Horribly laid out articles, images in weird places, and nothing at all is even the least interactive. You can't even click on an ad to get more info. Just a terrible showing here. The version they had on Kindle Fire 3 years ago was far better. This is garbage.
Pain to subscribe / non interactive So this was a pain to link to my print account. First I created a wired online account. This gave me my account # in their tablet information. Then I was able to use that to create a conde nast account which got me the link to my print subscription. After all that I'm basically reading a pdf. Just an image of each page from the print edition. One expects more from wired.
Print subscriber Finally, Wired allows print subscribers to have access on Android. The verification process gave a server error the first time, but worked the 2nd time. The free access isn't universal; no idea why it works for some but not all. My 1-star review is now a 3-star review. However. Wired has pages in every print issue touting the tablet/digital editions of the magazine and how they have interactive and/or additional content... The digital edition on Google Play is just the print version digitized. The "enhanced content" in Apple, Kindle Fire, and Nook editions aren't in the Android version. And why can't I read the older issues with my print subscriber digital access? Wired should provide its subscribers using Android with access to all the issues that have been available to iOS, Nook, and Kindle Fire.
Free on iPad? Um...not I cannot stand all the comments...for almost every magazine. "Why do iPad users get it free if they are subscribers?" Um... they don't. Why do you assume they do? In fact the reviews over there are identical to the ones here. And they are exactly the same price. Cancel your paper scrip and spend a few more dollars on this. Or just shut up already.....
Disappointed I have to agree with some of the other posts. I get the paper version and was able to read it on iOS devices at no extra charge. But you now want me to pay again for android. Its sad because I am a die hard android fan but its the little things like this that are making me considering going to iOS. Please fix this asap.
Wired Magazine Presented by Apple I have been a Wired print subscriber for years. In fact it's the only magazine I subscribe to. I'm now allowing my magazine subscription to expire due to their bias in favor of Apple. Why do Android users have to pay twice? Zero stars until this unabashed fanboyism is rectified.
Where is the Wired App? I am a paper subscriber to sports illustrated and time magazine, which means that I can get the digital versions by downloading the respective app for the magazine and then downloading the particular issue. This approach seems to create a digital magazine format that appears to be DESIGNED for a tablet. For example, the default size of the text is just right for the Nexus 7. However, with the digital version of Wired, it appears that the publisher simply created a digital version of the issue with no consideration for the size of the tablet. You have to manually stretch the page to make it readable. Then, you end up having to manually move around the page in order to read all of the text on the page. What happened to the wired app? Anyway, I cancelled my trial subscription due to the problem I described.
Same as the reviews from 2012 Just a PDF that doesn't even fill the screen when zoomed. You will have to scroll even if you have the screen real estate. Once I got into the magazine, I realized how poorly formatted it is. Underlines are above the baseline, text hangs over column backgrounds, and highlights randomly don't highlight anything. The lack of padding on some paragraphs is downright jarring. Maybe it works on paper...
Another unhappy Canadian I have been a print subscriber for over 10 years now and have finally given up. The monthly emails telling me I have free access to the digital edition will hopefully stop once I let my subscription expire. Wired is a real case study in how to disappoint your customers. If this was a cooking magazine I might understand, but Wired?
Still Doesn't Work for Subscribers I've been trying to view Wired on my Nexus since the day the device came out... now that the subscription is supposedly integrated into Google Play I was hopeful that I might be able to access it. Unfortunately, even when entering my subscriber information, the app still attempts to charge me for another subscription. I'm patient about buggy apps but this one has been available for several months and still can't integrate into the Google ecosystem. It's rather ironic how behind the times a magazine that focuses on cutting edge technology can be.
Rrrripoff for android users I cancelled my Canadian print subscription because it was pointless getting my subscription copies six weeks after the new stand edition. Willing to subscribe here only if we get parity with ios users. And somebody needs to rethink the digital experience of paging through 80% ad content. Doesn't really work, imho
Cannot fill out Conde Nast forms I'm trying to confirm my subscription but the forms I'm supposed to fill out on Conde Nast's web site won't let me enter any information. Very frustrating!! At least make it so we can confirm this on another computer as it doesn't seem to be working on my android phone.
No "free for print subscribers" link I hope you read this comment before you pay for a print subscription: the paper print subscription form says the electronic version is available for android tablet for no additional charge. The description in Google news stand says there is a "free for print subscribers" option after you click "subscribe". However, all subscribe options except "cancel" lead to being charged full price for a second subscription. The news stand provides no option for print subscribers.
No Android Love I have to say it is extremely disappointing that Wired has appeared to make some sort of deal with Apple and to neglect Android users. I used to be able to get the digital edition with my print subscription on but now I need an iPad?
I quit Without my paper edition - which I don't really miss, they still don't have WIRED for my Nexus so I can flip pages - The big shock is I don't really miss it either. A 200% increase in subscription rate was the last straw. Color me gone, Conde Nasty! You get a lot of money from your ads, and the 2pt font sux big ones anyway.
This mag has gone downhill I used to like this mag years ago, but it is mainly ads and has only a slim grip on tech news. It tries to be Maxim for nerds, and it fails at that. Ps it is BS that the mag is free to Apple fools and not Android users with a paid print subsription. I will not renew this subscription.
Premature release Can't get app to work on tab 10.1. Cleared data and cache, still received invalid login errors. App should have been tested on most popular devices before release. In addition, why release an app that doesn't have all of the features as other platforms.
Almost completely terrible! Very smart pricing for print subscribers: I wouldn't pay for this. Anyone thinking about subscribing, go for it, but know this: it is not even remotely enhanced, and setting it up will be a half hour's worth of pure frustration you will never get back. Unreadable on 7" screens, so expect to use the text option, which is functional but omits nearly all graphic content. Condé Nast should take note of Mental Floss's brilliant and highly-readable app, which indicates HOW IT IS DONE.
Where are the extras? Wasted a bunch of time setting up a subscription only to find that there is no trace whatsoever of the online extra that Wired was spamming me about. Or anything that isn't in the print magazine, actually. After spending some time on their sites and associated materials it's clear to me that nobody at Conde Nast has even heard of an Android device, let alone used one. Pathetic.
Cumbersome Why do I have to access through Google every time? Just give me a link to open. Also, I have long forgotten the password I used to set up the online subscription and there is no reset link! I haven't read a single issue since it became available in digital format. I will not renew.
At last! I'm hoping it was google to blame... but I'm finally able to link to my printed account and get this mag for free as all other platforms, and rating accordingly. Wired are still fanbois but I've known that for a long time, doesn't stop me from enjoying the mag.
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