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DoctaBu wrote:

Think these things over before you say stuff like this, alright?

Now THAT'S funny.  Think, internet...forums...  you're joking, right

Rik wrote:

3. The name MacAddict was from another time (1996), back when our stories were about "Fighting Back for the Mac." Apple was on the ropes, and a feisty attitude was exactly the right tack to take.  Today, Apple is riding high -- its products are the most elegant, coolest, most industry-influencing available.  We don't need to fight back anymore.  We won.

Please don't lose the feisty attitude.

This is my first posting here, but I am very familiar with MacAddict. I purchased every issue from the very first one until early 2005. I did not renew my subscription because with all the changes at MacAddict, I thought the magazine had really lost its edge.

I am hoping that the new Mac|Life magazine will be better and I am looking forward to seeing the first issue. If I like the first issue, I will pay for a subscription to the new magazine.

Last edited by Macintosh Sauce (2006-11-18 6:54 pm)

Whazt's in a name anyway? Those of us who say they prefer MacAddict that's just because you're used to it. You'll get used to MacLife as well and defenatly if it's a good magazine. We need a better lay-out anyway, and a bit thicker is nice. I did like the size though.... it's funny how 80% of newspapers and magazines all over the globe are changing size from big Broadsheet papers to smaller Tabloid or Berliner size and MacAddict decides to go the other way (eg. from small to big). I'd like more explanation to this!

cheers!

Macintosha Fanatica wrote:

justine wrote:

Macintosha Fanatica wrote:

The name change sounds like it comes from the higher ups who want to attract a wider audience to bolster subscriptions.

Why wouldn't they want that?

Absolutely - all of us want MacAddict to expand readership and reach as many people as possible.  It just saddens me that it has to come at the expense of a kick butt awesome name with so much history!

Of course they want to get more readers and subscribers. The issue here, I think, is how they plan to go about doing that, and what might the new name reveal about those methods.

To me, MacLife is a bland vanilla boring name. It hints that the new mag is going to try to attract Joe-iPod User as its base, which in turn implies that the edgy geeks who composed the original mag's original base will be left with no cool Mac mag to dork-out with.

Mustapha Mond wrote:

<snip> which in turn implies that the edgy geeks who composed the original mag's original base will be left with no cool Mac mag to dork-out with.

Those edgy geeks are the internet (ab)users.  The magazine has old news to those people.

The magazine needs more subscribers to increase its ad rates.  And since the "geeks" don't subscribe anyway it is time to change the magazine to have more appeal to possible subscribers.

I subscribed from August 1998 until July 2006.  Now my interests are in creating music using my Mac.  And I don't really need the reviews of music apps because I can't afford a new piece of hardware or software every month.  Once a year maybe.  When I need info I will download demos and try them.  I trust my own reviews to be more appropriate to my needs.

Mymac4ever wrote:

I just thought of something...this...

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To: Mymac4ever,

With my best Bill Clinton mimic: That's Good, That's REALLY GOOD!

Tallgeese wrote:

MacLife sounds too much like MacHome.

And we know macHome magazine went belly up. We think, because the publisher Never reported what was happening. There goes the cost of my prepaid subscription.

Although Rik says that all is well it still feels a bit strange hearing that the magazine will increase in size and editorial content. Especially since it isn't that long ago that we had discussions around here about whether MacAddict would go the same way as many other Macmagazines, if it would/should loose the cd and why it suddenly had so few pages and used moderately cheaper paper.

I for one will be very nervous through the whole first year. I wouldn't want to loose the only Macmagazine that I've been reading regularly the past four years. I choosed MacAddict because of it's wit and superior content over similar magazines over here. We only have one Macmagazine in Sweden and it's a very thin, quite booring MacWorld with no cd and a subscriptionprice that exceeds the one that MacAddict has.

I'll hold all my thumbs and cross all my fingers and try not to trip over my feet while doing so

TheUltimateMacUser wrote:

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Yea I thought of that one too or maybee even this one:

justine wrote:

Benton wrote:

If that does not happen have you stocked up with MacAddict t-shirts and caps?

That actually brings up an interesting point. Why did they start a MacAddict store knowing they were going to change the name?

Collectors items!!!!!!

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justine wrote:

Benton wrote:

If that does not happen have you stocked up with MacAddict t-shirts and caps?

That actually brings up an interesting point. Why did they start a MacAddict store knowing they were going to change the name?

That's assuming they knew they were going to change the name before starting a MacAddict store.

-droo