Common Sense Media Review
By Chris Morris
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
A marine encyclopedia that didn't do its homework.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 7+?
Any Positive Content?
Where to Download
Videos and Photos
HD Marine Life
Parent and Kid Reviews
Is It Any Good?
Marine HD is chock full of information about the sea. Unfortunately, none of that information is new or original. Every entry appears to be lifted word-for-word from Wikipedia pages, which are free to anyone with a web browser. What's more, the app actually makes it more difficult to get information available online. Marine HD presents the information as huge blocks of text that are very difficult to read. The little text that's not lifted from the free web encyclopedia is littered with misspelled words and sentences that, frankly, make no sense. For example, the sentence that greets you upon opening the app begins, "Life is not merely around us, there is life even in the most inospitos of our beautiful planet earth, as marine life, a world in which there is also an ecosystem, evolution, biology..." You get the point. If you want Wikipedia pages, don't pay for the pretty background and information that won't be updated. Just open a web browser.
App Details
- Device : iPad
- Pricing structure :
- Release date : June 24, 2010
- Genre : Education
- Publisher : ImagineThis
- Version : 1.0
- Minimum software requirements : OS 3.2 or later
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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