The complaints were first brought to light by Tumblr blogger Jamie Billett. He pointed out that in
The New Yorker’s iPad app, the text on some pages is rendered as HTML, and the text on other pages is rendered as an image file. The latter pages now appear “badly aliased”— i.e. conspicuously pixelated—throughout the app because the images haven’t been formatted to accommodate the new iPad’s 2,048x1,536-pixel resolution, he complains.
Titles from other magazine publishers—we looked at
Time magazine and
Sports Illustrated from Time Inc., and at
Esquire and
O: The Oprah Magazine from Hearst—all suffered from the same problems....
