Nothing more than suggested queries for Wolfram Alpha – Wolfram Fractals Reference App Review

I naively expected this to be more like an interactive CDF notebook and less like a thematic bundle of Wolfram Alpha example queries. I guess I should have been able to infer from the description text where it says that it requires an Internet connection, but It didn't seem obvious to me at the time. Between (hopefully coming real soon) CDF on the iPad and opportunistic augmentation from Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram has all the pieces to make for a phenomenal interactive exploration of fractals or almost any other mathematical or scientific subject. But selling barely dressed up Wolfram Alpha sample queries makes the Alpha team look too desperate to monetize on their own while missing the even more fantastic big picture possibilities here.
Review by sblom on Wolfram Fractals Reference App.