No landscape mode? No subscription (after 15 years of being a subscriber)

I am stunned by Conde Nast’s decision to remove landscape mode from Wired, that is grade-A B.S. Tablets, like all portable digital devices, are designed to be flexible in their usage, and this absurd restriction is literally cutting that flexibility in half. Reading anything on an iPad in portrait mode is, at least for me, *incredibly* annoying, since I can’t set it up on the table, arm chair, etc. to read it without holding it (most cases aren’t designed with that mode in mind), so I have to physically hold the device up in the air while I try to eat my breakfast. Screw that. Ironically, I might not even have noticed the change if they had opted for landscape mode instead.

I’ve read and loved Wired for almost 15 years. I was annoyed at having to cancel my paper subscription in order to *just* get the digital edition (even though the latter cost more money), but this is the last straw. I’m sorry to see it go, but I simply can’t enjoy reading it in such an awkward manner.

Whit G about WIRED Magazine, v4.5.2