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The rumors would come to fast for a monthly.
Still it's a very hot topic for something small and light.
Still it's a very hot topic for something small and light.
Macworld is a mag than now has an online presence. MR was never a magazine and isn't really suitable as a periodical.
Page three would have to include a section on changing icons every issue. That'd be neato.
In all honesty, I think this place is too dynamic to be suited to a magazine format. It gets updated too quickly. I always notice when I'm looking at other Mac magazine at the newsagent that they have relatively out-of-date write-ups and reviews, simply because it takes so much longer to publish a magazine compared with posting a thread.
In all honesty, I think this place is too dynamic to be suited to a magazine format. It gets updated too quickly. I always notice when I'm looking at other Mac magazine at the newsagent that they have relatively out-of-date write-ups and reviews, simply because it takes so much longer to publish a magazine compared with posting a thread.
every mac magazine that i pick up at the newsagent, has the same stuff that's written write here on MR... infact, it's always here on MR first.
I feel a month or two behind when I pick up a hardcopy from somewhere.
I stopped buying mac magazines after I purchased maybe five... I'll only buy one if I'm really bored, and in an airport waiting for a flight. hehehe
you could do a cool PDF eZine of MR stuff.... fortnightly or something.
I feel a month or two behind when I pick up a hardcopy from somewhere.
I stopped buying mac magazines after I purchased maybe five... I'll only buy one if I'm really bored, and in an airport waiting for a flight. hehehe
you could do a cool PDF eZine of MR stuff.... fortnightly or something.
The only idea with any legs although the effort involved in writing, editing and creating a professional-looking publication is substantial, and unless it actually generates income (hard to see how with identical content to the site) and drives traffic/advertising would mean it would be difficult to sustain over 1 or 2 issues, let alone an entire year.
A bulk regular emailing (akin to the Guardian's 'The Fiver') with a short précis of the top stories of the week might have a take-up but the question remains: who would do it? These things need careful editorial input and formatting and as far as I know, everyone here is a volunteer and has day-jobs to keep them busy.
While I can see how this could be a cool idea, I just think that it would prove to be too impractical to actually carry out.
Funnily enough I was at the airport earlier today seeing my brother off and we were in the news agency because he wanted a sudoku book. I saw a copy of latest MacWorld, flicked through it quickly and just though "meh, all old news". Like everyone else has said, there are just too many updates here for a magazine to be useful or practical.
There's the possibility MacRumors Magazine could get sued out of existence (if they decide to publish exclusive insider info; no point regurgitating what other sites publish)
Other than that, it would make for a great read on the crapper, but that's what a laptop and wireless internet is for!
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I've stopped reading MacWorld because I already know everything printed in it from reading MacRumors.com, AppleInsider.com and MacUser.com
Nothing against MacWorld. It is a fine publication, particularly the UK edition, and I do occassionally read their reviews online, but the nature of print is such that they just can't keep up.
Nothing against MacWorld. It is a fine publication, particularly the UK edition, and I do occassionally read their reviews online, but the nature of print is such that they just can't keep up.
It would be nice to have a roundup at the end of the month in form of a nice .pdf file (with imbedded links and such).
I would/could send it to friends who are interested in Apple news/rumours, but who don't bother to check MR or other sites regularly.
I would/could send it to friends who are interested in Apple news/rumours, but who don't bother to check MR or other sites regularly.
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All the reviews would be like "OMG the MB sux, it gets too hot, the edges cut me, it is too slow, I hate the glossy screen, it moo's" etc
The only function of a monthly computer magazine (for me anyway) is to have deeper articles by higher quality writers.
That's why I continue to respect Edge (in the UK) magazine - it has quality indepth articles about the gaming industry, interviews with the game creators, a high standard of writing and layout and design.
(and other magazines like the Economist.)
Same with the newspapers, yes it's all yesterday's news, and I've already seen most of it on the BBC news website, but I value the analysis and comment - a 500 word considered analysis takes the same amount of time to read as watching a 30 second stonewall blurb from a government flack on TV.
Not so much the weekend papers tho; their quality in the UK has gone down shockingly.
That's why I continue to respect Edge (in the UK) magazine - it has quality indepth articles about the gaming industry, interviews with the game creators, a high standard of writing and layout and design.
(and other magazines like the Economist.)
Same with the newspapers, yes it's all yesterday's news, and I've already seen most of it on the BBC news website, but I value the analysis and comment - a 500 word considered analysis takes the same amount of time to read as watching a 30 second stonewall blurb from a government flack on TV.
Not so much the weekend papers tho; their quality in the UK has gone down shockingly.