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Reading magazines on the iPad is an exercise in frustration. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. As great a device and, more importantly, a platform as Apple has made, magazine publishers have done nothing short of fumble the snap.

Justin Williams on how the magazine experience on the iPad fails to live up to what it could be. I agree with Justin wholeheartedly. Not a magazine on the iPad that I can say I really enjoy reading. Meanwhile, Flipboard handles the same job—often offering the same content as many of these magazines—in nearly perfect fashion.

I love the idea of magazines on the iPad, I’m just waiting for them to be implemented in a way that doesn’t make me feel like I’m fighting with my iPad.

Justin Williams – Google+ – Reading magazines on the iPad is an exercise in… | via @justinw

Come on dudes, think different.