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@charlesarthur Lots of factors involved, but one was the death of the big Mac mail order dealers - they bought a LOT of pages.

@ianbetteridge why did the big Mac mail order dealers die?

@charlesarthur Given the state of search and "curation" in the App Store mags are needed now more than ever. Internet killed mags, not area.

@arebee who's got the time to flip through though? And where's the business model?

@charlesarthur I used to treasure flipping though Macworld and NeXTWorld. But then I was in high school and uni, so time rich, cash poor.

@arebee there was a NeXTWorld? Jeepers.

@charlesarthur growing number of alternatives for the info that it provides?

@robfmac I suspect the availability of intertubes is largely to blame.

@charlesarthur oh for the days of a free cd on the cover of such things.

@robfmac oh god I remember those. Endless hours spent trying to figure out if they were worth installing.

@charlesarthur The proliferation of online information probably.

@jgpmolloy ya think?

@charlesarthur I worked for Dennis way back when... (Apple II writer for Computer Shopper)

@jgpmolloy Apple II! Man, the time of the diplodocus.

@charlesarthur Every tech pub is an Apple pub now.

@petestweets @charlesarthur Not in the traditional sense of tech pub (Byte, Dr. Dobbs), and probably Consumer Reports fits the modern need.

@jjhikes @charlesarthur It's not about need, tech is mainstream now - regular people talk about it and Apple has been a big part of that.

@petestweets @jjhikes sure, but as John says, if the ad model gets killed, nothing remains.

@charlesarthur @jjhikes Nothing remains? No shortage of coverage or accessible expertise these days.