Forums | MacLife

baltwo · 2009-05-11 4:42 pm

Given that your current title is MacLife, can we dispense with the Apple-centric accessories, such as iPods, iPhones, and Apple TV, and concentrate on things Macintosh, the computer? I for one am totally fed up with the accessory-centric direction the mag is heading for. If that's it's goal, then a change in title to AppleLife is warranted.

mrreet2001 · 2009-05-11 6:10 pm

When apple starts maybe the mag will shrug

baltwo · 2009-05-11 6:19 pm

That's Apple's business. We're disussing MacLife, which, IMO, should be Mac-centric, with occasional links to other accessories, including Apple's. However, MacLife and its newsletter seems to only deal with the accessories.

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mrreet2001 · 2009-05-11 6:24 pm

Maybe thats because news dealing with new macs comes alone once in a blue moon. And who wants to visit a site / get a newsletter with nothing but 4 week old news in it.

baltwo · 2009-05-11 6:43 pm

Then, AppleLife would do it for you and you should be pushing for a companion magazine. Since I have no interest in those accessories, I want MacLife to concentrate on Macs and using them to compute, not as a surrogate for an entertainment center.

dv · 2009-05-11 7:57 pm

baltwo wrote:
Then, AppleLife would do it for you and you should be pushing for a companion magazine. Since I have no interest in those accessories, I want MacLife to concentrate on Macs and using them to compute, not as a surrogate for an entertainment center.

It would be a very, very thin quarterly magazine with a bunch of iLife tutorials.

baltwo · 2009-05-11 8:06 pm

Really? Are the iLife apps the only ones you use? What about tricks, tips, Apple's other apps, and third-party apps and utilities? What about extensive coverage of building and maintaining home networks? What about setting up servers? Seems to be a lot more than and entertainment center or a play station knockoff. If your assessment is valid, then change it to AppleLife and get on with it.

dv · 2009-05-11 11:10 pm

Nobody's changing the name of the magazine.

But I'm not sure what you're talking about, since the kind of articles you're saying you want would be: this, this, this, this, this, this, or this.

Still, magazines have to be written for as broad a user base as possible. 99% of the people using a computer right at this moment could give a rat's ass about a networking how-to. But their money is green. So you print what they want to read.

mrreet2001 · 2009-05-12 6:22 am

Guess what baltwo ... MacWorld ALSO features the same content as MacLife. So there must be something to it.

zeitgeist · 2009-05-12 7:12 am

"AppleLife." I like it. Not least because the forums won't be the M|LF anymore.

Then again... is it really an improvement?

mrreet2001 · 2009-05-12 7:14 am

ALF!

Ice Cream Man · 2009-05-16 6:44 pm

Back when it was Mac Addict, it was largely defined by Mac and OSX related articles. I really liked the format then, it was great! However you must be missing something. The whole idea behind all the devices is that you connect them to a Mac. And having the iTunes experience with iPods and things on Windows is really a form of marketing that gets people to see it’s not so bad to use Apple hardware, gets a person thinking, “hmmm, why don’t I get a Mac” which can be the digital hub of one’s life. Thus, Maclife is really a very fitting title.

frankly · 2009-05-17 12:54 am

I hate posts like this because someone comes in with a claim and most people don't have the time or the inclination to call them on their BS. I just grabbed 7 copies of Mac|Life I had laying around from the past year and I did a quick count of the Mac-related articles and the iPod/iPhone-related articles. Here are the results:

Mac-related articles: 152
iPod/iPhone-related articles: 28

Therefore, over 84% of the articles in Mac|Life were either directly about the Mac, about some software that can only be used on a Mac, or about a hardware accessory for your Mac. I don't think that 15% of the articles being about iPods and/or iPhones and their related accessories comes anywhere close to justifying the claims made by the original poster of this thread. Considering the percentage of Mac owners that own iPods and/or iPhones I think this is actually a pretty low percentage of coverage.

IOW, move along, nothing to see here wink

mrreet2001 · 2009-05-17 8:03 am

It's like writing to "car and driver" telling them to change their name to "wheel and driver" because the have to many articles about tire choices.

ScifiterX · 2009-05-17 11:04 am

frankly wrote:
I hate posts like this because someone comes in with a claim and most people don't have the time or the inclination to call them on their BS. I just grabbed 7 copies of Mac|Life I had laying around from the past year and I did a quick count of the Mac-related articles and the iPod/iPhone-related articles. Here are the results:

Mac-related articles: 152
iPod/iPhone-related articles: 28

Therefore, over 84% of the articles in Mac|Life were either directly about the Mac, about some software that can only be used on a Mac, or about a hardware accessory for your Mac. I don't think that 15% of the articles being about iPods and/or iPhones and their related accessories comes anywhere close to justifying the claims made by the original poster of this thread. Considering the percentage of Mac owners that own iPods and/or iPhones I think this is actually a pretty low percentage of coverage.

IOW, move along, nothing to see here

And if you want to be technical the iPod line falls firmly under hardware accessories for your Mac and the iPod Touch & iPhone are essentially palmtop Macs.

frankly · 2009-05-17 1:18 pm

ScifiterX wrote:
frankly wrote:
I hate posts like this because someone comes in with a claim and most people don't have the time or the inclination to call them on their BS. I just grabbed 7 copies of Mac|Life I had laying around from the past year and I did a quick count of the Mac-related articles and the iPod/iPhone-related articles. Here are the results:

Mac-related articles: 152
iPod/iPhone-related articles: 28

Therefore, over 84% of the articles in Mac|Life were either directly about the Mac, about some software that can only be used on a Mac, or about a hardware accessory for your Mac. I don't think that 15% of the articles being about iPods and/or iPhones and their related accessories comes anywhere close to justifying the claims made by the original poster of this thread. Considering the percentage of Mac owners that own iPods and/or iPhones I think this is actually a pretty low percentage of coverage.

IOW, move along, nothing to see here
And if you want to be technical the iPod line falls firmly under hardware accessories for your Mac and the iPod Touch & iPhone are essentially palmtop Macs.

Exactly. The iPhone and iPod touch run OS X and you need a Mac to develop software for them.

Forums | MacLife

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