techbeck Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 After two decades in print, Macworld announced this week that the print magazine will shut down. Jason Snell was Macworld's lead editor for more than a decade, and ? along with many of his former colleagues ? is moving on. Jason has launched a new site, Six Colors, where he will continue covering Apple and the technology industry at large. We asked him to reflect on his experience as one of the industry's most prolific Apple watchers. Before there were tech web sites there were magazines. Once a month you'd get a new one and read it cover to cover, including all the ads, trying to glean as much information as you could. I remember scouring issues of MacUser before buying my first PowerBook, trying to decide which model was exactly right for me. I must've read that article fifty times. Imagine that. Back then, Apple would announce a raft of new products and almost nobody would know for weeks or even months. Now we all know in seconds. As the era of print media slowly grinds to a halt, the death notices keep coming. This week it was Macworld, the magazine I worked at for 17 years, that stopped killing trees. (The magazine continues on in a digital-only format, like its sibling PCWorld, which exited print last year.) More.... http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/17/6340717/goodbye-macworld-jason-snell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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