MardeeT

October 16, 2011 at 3:51pm

Please answer the questions out there about current subscribers to print edition. Can this be free or discounted for us, and can we transfer print to digital? Love the idea, but I prefer print. I like digital when I have that option, or when I am traveling and don't want to pack magazines. I don't want to pay for both though. Do like Wired and offer up for us loyal subscribers!!

Thanks

lhatten

October 13, 2011 at 8:05pm

 

OK folks, what is with the spam filter.  Are the certain words that can't be used, like pathxxic or defendxxing ?   Please  to remove the xx and you can see the words that triggered the filter.  What gives, can't use common words in the english language??  

Pathxxetec!!

 

essjay22

October 13, 2011 at 7:54pm

I used to subscribe to PCmag online and found that for all the time i spend in front of this 23' screen I just could not take the time to read a magazine on it, even with all the great links that took me right to the product etc.  I prefer to be able to take my magazine and read it on the couch or wherever . It looks like hell on my NC if I can get it to load. I have not renewed my sub for PCM   and I am pretty  sure I wont for MPC for the same reason. Well MPC puts just about everything in the mag here on the www so why bother subscribing ? 

get it on itunes? not bloody likely.

.02

lhatten

October 13, 2011 at 7:53pm

Those of you that are OK with this roll-out do not seem to understand that this magazine, and website are called Maximum PC (the PC is Wintel PC not the generic PC).   Therefore, the coverage is mostly Wintel PCs not Macs, Linux, or other computers.  More importantly, the readership expects this coverage.

Now as Mortal_M was trying to say, this is a slap in the face for the readers of Maximum PC.  What do you think the reaction would be if they had released Mac|Life on the android and Windows Tablet (when there is one) and not on iOS?  You think  these comments are harsh!

So Future PLC, you may lose some subscribers due to this blunder.  It would behoove you to listen to your editors (you did tell them that this was a mistake ... right?) and make sure you released it on a platform that matches the platform of your readers.  It's not like there isn't one.

Oh, and rcoden, you are a looser.  You think that because you have and iPod  you are cool?  Really??

jraktal

October 13, 2011 at 12:53pm

IOS Install base ~250 Millions users

Higer profile delivery systems - Apple App Store

This is something that the Marketing wogs love, the writers have no say in these matters, just the money men.

Whine and wimper all you want, if they can get people on IOS to subscribe on a monthly basis, it fattens up their coffers.

 

nuf' said

 

 

raycornwall

October 13, 2011 at 9:32am

I have both an iPad and a desktop PC, so I'm fine with this. I'd love to see my print sub cover my digital sub ala Wired and Vanity Fair, and the app does say this is coming eventually. Until then, then $1/month subscription is pretty nifty. I'll be happy to throw an extra buck for the great coverage I get.

polecat99

October 13, 2011 at 9:30am

Dear Max PC,

Please edit/update this article and include instructions to tell us how to get the Maximum PC Digital Edition on a PC or Android device.

Per other posters suggestions, I tried installing the Nook app on my android device, and I am still not able to find the Maximum PC Digital Edition in the Nook shop.

If this is truely available on the PC and Android, then please tell us how to get it.

Thanks

 

Jongalt26

October 13, 2011 at 9:23am

Thanks MaxPC!

for the neysayers, it should be available on Steam as well.

Jongalt26

October 13, 2011 at 9:23am

Thanks MaxPC!

for the neysayers, it should be available on Steam as well.

deadlift1

October 13, 2011 at 9:22am

Can I convert my current print subscription to digital?

Antherz

October 13, 2011 at 7:54am

It's about money, always is always will be, all your opinions don't really matter in the end. =) on a side note though if everyone boycott's maxpc i'm sure they will listen =)

bigphil76

October 13, 2011 at 7:53am

I hate to call people stupid so I will say that several of the individuals below are idiots. lol. You can get a nook app for PC and ANDROID. Then you can subscribe to the digital version of maxpc. Do your research next time before making yourself look stupid. There I said it. HA.

Shalbatana

October 13, 2011 at 7:35am

I applaud your advancement of the publication but in one way would have to agree with some of the others. It would be more useful to me if I could get a version for my pc based system. Granted we are already being afforded the free pdf's, but by the time that comes out I've already read the print mag cover to cover.

Perhaps in the future, subscribers could tack on a few ducats to their subscription and download an electronic version at the same time.

Something to consider perhaps.

Neel Chauhan

October 13, 2011 at 7:05am

I hope you don't stop the print edition because there are a lot of people who subscribe to you and don't have an iPad like me.

ceator3571

October 13, 2011 at 6:33am

Can I transfer my subscription to iPad or get it for free if I pay for the print version? For Wired because I pay for the print version I get the iPad version for free and I like reading mags on the iPad a lot.

 

PS Yes I love PC's but I like reading my mags on an iPad. 

JusTalkin

October 13, 2011 at 6:23am

Get the Nook app for ANDROID or PC and stop whining.  You people are so closed minded that it's funny. I've been using my nook app on my Android phone for ages and it's great for lots of magazines.

Also, this isn't your brother marrying your ex, it's a great magazine on iOS.  If you'd get your heads out of the sand and check it out instead of falling for the fanboy/hateboy ignorance, you would realize iOS is a great platform. 

RET_ARMY

October 13, 2011 at 5:25am

Maybe you could release MaximumI or MaximumApple mag for them. After all, the title is MaximumPC. Should PC readers get a shot first or even android. I've been a fan since this MAG started, and I don't recall seeing how to build a MAC in any vol. I could be wrong, might have missed that issue being deployed some where. You guys fell on your forth point of contact...That means A_ _ for non paratroopers.

RET_ARMY

October 13, 2011 at 5:26am

Sorry, must have double clicked. CMF

Bunta

October 13, 2011 at 5:19am

wow, MAXIMUM PC  avialble on a IOS device first, lost all respect, sorry i dont buy into apple toys and hype, all they are is over priced garbage that the public feel in love with because of hype marketing. 

dont worry i wont be renewing my subscription, never thought id have to have a apple product to read articles about a PC first, wow,

I usally try to be postive and a good person, but you guys are patheic morons

Device Unknown

October 13, 2011 at 4:48am

umm I have to agree with these guys. I love you guys at Maximum"PC" so to release it on iOS before Android seems like an incredible shot in the foot.

Could you guys detail what $8 per would give us to want to do this? Any special offers? bonuses? frikin Tshirt?

rcoden

October 13, 2011 at 4:26am

Blah, blah, blah kiddies.  Get with the times.  Money dictates what owns the market and the iPad is currently the king of mobile distribution.  If you don't like it, go and rally and get all your friends, co-workers, etc. to buy something else.  Once the number of those devices increases to where there is real market value, your Publishing companies will grant your wish.  I have been a Maximum PC reader for six or more years and YES I have an iPad.  Why, because unlike you, I know what is cool and I'm won't limit myself because some of you view something as cool or not.  Guess what, it's already been decided, it's cool.  Whining and bitching is not.

don2041

October 13, 2011 at 12:50am

This has been coming for a while now. I just hope that the add department can realize that those adds that pop up and make you wait or click to get rid of them, are so annoying and frustrating they make me want to leave this site. These adds are like picking up a billboard and smashing me in the face with it. Not a nice experience.

Vegan

October 13, 2011 at 12:30am

The real news here is that you can now buy Edge Magazine without having to pay the ridiculous import price.

M3g4d37h

October 12, 2011 at 11:01pm

I use both platforms -- I never understood all this hate towards ios anything, it's just as idealogical and dumb as the apple-everything crowd.

 

Clearly what they did is choose the largest platform (or at least a very high profile one) to establish a presence, and they'll move into other platforms.  I'm sure it'll be available in short time, and Ballmer will give you all woodies with his dancing until he's bathed in sweat from head to toe.

 

Carry on.

eastbayrae

October 12, 2011 at 10:30pm

Only on Apple?  Fail.

Vegan

October 12, 2011 at 9:02pm

A single issue is $8, and a one-month subscription is $1. I'm not clear on what the difference is.

CaptainFabulous

October 12, 2011 at 8:53pm

Yeah, I have to toss another "WTF were you thinking" on this. Seriously, Nook and iCrap devices? That's the best you could do?

chucknorrisforpres

October 12, 2011 at 8:28pm

It sounds like the decision came from Future down to MaxPC. Future only cares about profits, not the actual content of the magazines; if they're going to make some of their magazines available on iOS they might as well make all of them that way. Who knows maybe some Mac cult member will read an issue and realize he could build his own computer instead of paying Apple through the nose for one :)

lhatten

October 12, 2011 at 8:10pm

So you guys did not see this coming?  Much like Netflix did not see the added price and then the split gone wrong?  Man, I have said it before, & will say it again, any corporation with a board room needs a "Sniff Tester Department"  Run this crap by them and then when they throw it back listen!

Keith E. Whisman

October 12, 2011 at 7:38pm

Can you throw in something a little more than what you can get with a digital version for us paper magazing subscribers like a folding back page message like what you get with each and every issue of Mad Magazine since like forever please. 

 

You know that each and every issue is going to be on Pirate Bay and Demonoid the same day it's released right?

aarcane

October 12, 2011 at 6:22pm

So I don't have the newsstand client.  I have an unspecified ePub reader.  Where can I download the epub version of it?  Also, thanks for making maxpc available to all the apple users :)

wcj786

October 12, 2011 at 6:19pm

Now, you just have to work on the app that will allow it to be read on the HP TouchPad/webOS devices.