Comments on: Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine Stops The Presses http://www.geardiary.com/2008/08/26/smartphone-pocket-pc-magazine-stops-the-presses/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Doug Goldringhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/08/26/smartphone-pocket-pc-magazine-stops-the-presses/#comment-39332 Doug Goldring Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:04:23 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/08/26/smartphone-pocket-pc-magazine-stops-the-presses/#comment-39332 That's funny, Chris. I just made the exact same point in an email about 10 minutes ago. I completely agree. Print magazines really need to offer something new and different. It was easy 10-15 years ago. There were newspapers which game you breaking news and magazines which spent more time developing specific feature stories. Now, the Internet does both. So, even the features and reviews have been done to death by the time a bimonthly gets around to publishing. It is a shame, though, because it was the only print magazine covering our little corner of the world exclusively. Doug That’s funny, Chris. I just made the exact same point in an email about 10 minutes ago. I completely agree. Print magazines really need to offer something new and different. It was easy 10-15 years ago. There were newspapers which game you breaking news and magazines which spent more time developing specific feature stories. Now, the Internet does both. So, even the features and reviews have been done to death by the time a bimonthly gets around to publishing.

It is a shame, though, because it was the only print magazine covering our little corner of the world exclusively.

Doug

]]> By: Christopher Gavulahttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/08/26/smartphone-pocket-pc-magazine-stops-the-presses/#comment-39331 Christopher Gavula Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:56:11 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/08/26/smartphone-pocket-pc-magazine-stops-the-presses/#comment-39331 The problem with the printed press, especially publications about technology, is timliness. By the time mags like this hit the stands they are often already very out of date. They can't be flexible and resond quickly enough in this quick and volitile market. That makes them less appealing to advertisers, especially technology manufacturers/providers. The speed and availablilty of info on the Internet has taken us down this path where print editions have a hard time competing. I'm sorry to see them go, but I'm not particularly surprised. To compete, they have to offer something different or "more" than what can be obtained on the "net". Although it wasn't mentioned here, I think it's interesting however, that they are planning to go down the path of publishing a quarterly iPhone-based publication in the next year. The problem with the printed press, especially publications about technology, is timliness. By the time mags like this hit the stands they are often already very out of date. They can’t be flexible and resond quickly enough in this quick and volitile market. That makes them less appealing to advertisers, especially technology manufacturers/providers.

The speed and availablilty of info on the Internet has taken us down this path where print editions have a hard time competing. I’m sorry to see them go, but I’m not particularly surprised. To compete, they have to offer something different or “more” than what can be obtained on the “net”.

Although it wasn’t mentioned here, I think it’s interesting however, that they are planning to go down the path of publishing a quarterly iPhone-based publication in the next year.

]]> By: GFhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/08/26/smartphone-pocket-pc-magazine-stops-the-presses/#comment-39309 GF Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:22:29 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/08/26/smartphone-pocket-pc-magazine-stops-the-presses/#comment-39309 So sad to hear about it. From WM2003 2nd edition onward, the OS does not have a lot of changes. For the hardware, it is about the same except the form factors and the fancy interface. Now even I skipped one or two issues, I don't feel missing of any information. Besides, we all can get the latest hardware information in the internet, it makes the magazine becomes outdated. I really hope that they can revamp their website and keep the electronics copy alive. So sad to hear about it.

From WM2003 2nd edition onward, the OS does not have a lot of changes. For the hardware, it is about the same except the form factors and the fancy interface. Now even I skipped one or two issues, I don’t feel missing of any information. Besides, we all can get the latest hardware information in the internet, it makes the magazine becomes outdated.

I really hope that they can revamp their website and keep the electronics copy alive.

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