FORTUNE Magazine App Reviews

Issue will not load...just lost $4.95 for nothing. I want my money back.

Love the magazine experience on the iPad. Interactive and engrossing. Wish more magazines would put out apps that go beyond the paper addition.

Nice decision to allow print subscribers to download issues for free but downloading and installation of issues are slooooow. A lot more than many other digital mags I subscribe to.

Painfully slow downloads. Unknown errors. Cannot install paid issues. Rebooting does not help. Reinstalling did not help.

App has problems. Paid 4.99 for may 23rd issue and when installing it says there is an unknown error. Should have bought the print issue:(

Error message!!!!! Please fix

Great business profiles. Tom

Since updating app, cant download new issues (Im a subscriber), and app wont even let me view/preview.

Time for a retina version! Articles and text look fuzzy at best. You want me to renew subscription? Get this done in hi-res ASAP!

Cant believe its not even retina optimized yet!

I have had it installed for 2 days, and have yet to be able to use it. Re-installed 3 times...NO luck. Hope they fix it!!!

Use to work fine, now always crashing, cant even open even after re-installing 5 times and being forced to erase 10 past editions (ie 2hours of my life downloading different issues). Absolutely livid that they cant test app since I am not the only one with these issues. FIX IT FORTUNE

Special Update The bug that I was so frustrated with in the four reviews below has been resolved. I have changed my rating and the title above to reflect how much I like the app when it is functioning properly. ___________________________________________________________ Review 1 When I first purchased this magazine I loved it. It was a surprise that it wasnt retina optimized though I figured thats only a matter of time. In the last week its been prone to a bunch of error messages and now not of my issues are showing up. No matter how many times I delete / reinstall or troubleshoot in other ways I cant solve this issue. Im waiting to here back from Fortunes Customer Service on their advice. Severely frustrated. Review 2 It still blows. Im sorry for being so bold but this is getting ridiculous. Fortune Customer Service never returned my email to the address they list in the app for issues and concerns. I called them and they insisted it was an Apple issue. I contacted Apple and they gave me a few options and none worked. Apple stated that to troubleshoot any further I would need to pay $35 to create a ticket which makes no sense because the problem Im having is clearly a bug. After extensive research online theres many people facing this issue with Conde Nast subscriptions with various of their magazines on the iOS Newsstand. Unfortunately, no solutions have been found but theres some users claiming that theyve spent hundreds on magazines and havent had a reliable experience. Extremely angry at the lack of follow through on the part of Conde and Apple. Review 3 Wrote a scathing email to Apple and have yet to hear back. Theyre usually pretty good at follow up so I anticipate hearing from them at some point. Called Fortunes iPad Customer Service again and they stated again that its an Apple issue and that there was nothing they could do to help those conversations or escalate this in anyway despite the fact that it appears to be a known bug. So whats my options if this never gets resolved? Apple doesnt give refunds easily if ever. So did I pay for a subscription that I will never get to use? Theres got to be something illegal with that being the end result. Review 4 Yet another email to Fortune. Hopefully this one gets responded to within the 2 business days they promise. Please see the exact email below: To Whom It May Concern, I am incredibly frustrated. I have a Fortune Subscription that I paid for, for one year. I have emailed this address before and received no answer. I talked to a Customer Service Rep who clearly could not troubleshoot beyond confirming that I indeed do have an active subscription and could not help me beyond that. I have also complained to Apple and was told a $35 support cost would need to be applied to help beyond what they did over a 2 minute call. I was blown away by this considering the cannot contact server and transaction failed errors Im receiving are clearly a bug on either Fortune or Apples end. With that said, I decided to research online and have found numerous articles expressing that users all over are experiencing this exact problem with a variety of Conde Nast subscriptions. Please help me to somehow reset my account on both Fortune and Apples servers so that my iOS subscription gets recognized.

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Exceptionally Poor Download Speed can only be described as a bad joke. Both my Bloomberg/Business Week and Golf Digest Magazines Downlaod in a matter of minutes or less and they are every bit as large as a Fortune edition. Each Fortune edition takes an hour or more to download.

Download very slow

This app crashes all the time. Its also not optimized for retina. All the letters and pictures are pixelated and very hard to look at. It also is not possible to download multiple magazines simultaneously.

Not sure if I like this new version, I wish I could have kept the old one. It crashes from time to time and advertising appears in the bottom of right corner that you cant turn it off, essentially you are missing parts of the articles...

Having The Economist, Fast Company & SciAm on IPad, I have to say this the best app Ive seen so far... Fully exploiting the IPad functionality to make content more interactive. Plus you can start reading before it is completely downloaded... So the download speed is not really an issue, not that it is any worse than any others... Plus I like the ability to access content both portrait and landscape... Great job

Ive had this app for a week, Im a subscriber and the magazine still doesnt download properly after several attempts.