I can't purchase a subscription!
I purchased a yearly subscription and every month, I put up with downloading the latest issue(making sure, of course, not to let my iPad go to sleep or else the download doesn't complete!) after going through the hassle of all that :) what do I get? Crash after crash after crash after crash! How ironic, you keep on categorizing electronics every month while your crappy app doesn't function properly. Where would T3 rank this app?
Nothing interactive about it, just close up pictures of the iPhone 5! Even HELP is not available, BUT it lets me buy a full subscription to the magazine, if I want to! Very disappointing! No way to contact anybody to report it, like other iPad magazines do within their app. Surprising, being that Future Publishing has other great magazines.
Great magazine experience. Had a hiccup with the subscription not showing my past magazines but support was helpful and resolved it.
Love the way these guys bring the magazine to what it can be like on devices like this instead of boring traditionalism.
Why would you lock all the content in the sample edition? Not a very good test drive...DELETE!
What's up with the huge pages that don't fit on the screen. I have an ipad3 and this is such a pain.
With apps (well, anything really) great customer service is often hard to come by. However, T3 has been impeccable. I admit that I had a problem at first with the app not recognizing my subscription number, but I sent an email and was responded to within minutes! Needless to say, I was up and running with an AMAZING magazine and graphics within 30 minutes. Thank you to Paddy for the great service!
I don't think it's fair that you can restore the purchased magazines ONLY if you are a subscriber. I have bought a couple of editions as non-subscriber in order to see whether I want to be a subscriber or not. But after an update, all the magazine that I have purchased went missing. Each edition cost me $4.99 unlike the $1.99 a subscriber pays for. So, a subscriber pays less AND gets to restore the purchased editions. Whereas, I, payed a lot more and cannot restore the previously bought edition. That is truly unfair.
Evo Magazine on the other hand, actually "remembers" all the magazines I buy, which makes it possible for me to restore them. And only for that, I have become an EVO magazine subscriber owing to their fair and honest business conduct.
Unfortunately, Road & Track, T3, Automobile, Robb Report, and Car and Driver Magazine are all the same. Actually Robb Report is even worse because one edition of Robb Report cost me $7.99. I rarely take time to write a review but this time I felt ripped off and had to share this with others.
If you consider buying T3 magazines, DON'T!!!
I am struggling for months now to get back the magazines I bought through a subscription. Despite the purchase evidences I provided and a long chain of emails, there was no success!!! The only thing I got was a never ending discussion and several re-installs of the application. Not only I lost my money, the magazines I bought and now also my time.
If Apple would be serious they would remove this app from distribution.
If you consider getting some of the magazines of Future Publishing, DON'T!!!
They have the worst customer support you may imagine.
Keep your fingers, and time, far from these time and money wasters...
I hope you take this review seriously and don't get trapped in the same problem I did. There is enough amusement out there and T3 and Future Publishing only have grief to offer you.
I never imagined I would write such a review... But i feel that it is not even close to the frustration my experience with this magazine, app and the people behind it gave me until now.
Upgraded to iOS5, and the T3 app vanished and I appear to have lost ALL my previous issues.
Upon re-downloading, bookshelf shows no issues. Great magazine, but not great enough to pay for each issue TWICE!
NONE of my other magazine apps behaved this way. After the upgrade, the T3 app did not even appear on iCloud. I guess my magazines (and money) are gone forever.
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