Macworld lays off most staff
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Macworld lays off most staff
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#2That sucks. I realize Macworld still exists but won't be the same. Losing a lot of great writers that I've enjoyed for years.
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#3What is the catalyts for this? Apple's market share is similar to what is was a few years ago. Is there a decline in ad revenues? What is the reason for this.
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#4What is the catalyts for this? Apple's market share is similar to what is was a few years ago. Is there a decline in ad revenues? What is the reason for this.
Declining print subscriptions, most likely, and pressures to increase profit margins. They're ceasing print publication, but continuing to operate the website.
This is unfortunate, but that's the nature of publishing in this newfangled media landscape. (As they say.)
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#5Bigger than Macworld. IDG, the parent company, has seen better days. They killed the print editions of Computerworld and CSO not long ago.
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#6What is the catalyts for this? Apple's market share is similar to what is was a few years ago. Is there a decline in ad revenues? What is the reason for this.
The growth of tech websites has made print-based magazines extremely difficult to operate at profit.
While there are far more people using Apple devices, there are also much larger support communities for them as well, so a printed magazine is largely redundant.
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#7What is the catalyts for this? Apple's market share is similar to what is was a few years ago. Is there a decline in ad revenues? What is the reason for this.
The magazine market is running on fumes. Most of the print media companies haven't been able to replace the kind of revenue they used to see from subscriptions and in-print magazine advertisements in the on-line world.
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#8Sad day. I still have a bunch of old Macworld issues.
Though that name seems like such an anachronism. The Apple universe isn't so much "Mac" anymore.
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#9What is the catalyts for this? Apple's market share is similar to what is was a few years ago. Is there a decline in ad revenues? What is the reason for this.
It seems like there's a lot of competition for "apple rumors" in general but I think the worst damage comes from within - the entire tech reporting industry just plagiarizes and cannibalizes other people's work, it doesn't require as much talent or manpower to reword articles.
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#10I think it's worth noting that they let staff cover the event yesterday, and then surprised (some of) them with a layoff today. Classy.