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PCWorld Magazine Is No More

Posted by timothy on from the long-rather-for-the-old-and-big-computer-shopper dept.

harrymcc writes "After slightly more than 30 years, PCWorld — one of the most successful computer magazines of all time — is discontinuing print publication. It was the last general-interest magazine for PC users, so it really is the end of an era. Over at TIME, I paused to reflect upon the end of the once-booming category, in part as a former editor at PCWorld, but mostly as a guy who really, really loved to read computer magazines."

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  1. Figures by Mr.+Freeman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can only ramble on about going paperless in print articles for so long before you start to look a little silly.

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  2. Sad, but no great loss... by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For at least 15 of those 30 years, it read more like Computer Shopper, anyway. I mourned it a long time ago.

  3. Good riddance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Over the last 30 years, its editors got in bed with whatever comapny was big at the time and therefore apid the most for ad space (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, etc.)

    So much for unbiased journalism. PC World, aong with PC Mag, epitomized an era where ad dollars literally bought favorable reviews.

    What EA, Ubi, Activision and others did to printed gaming mags was peanuts in comparison.

  4. Next up : TIME? by OakDragon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Over at TIME, I paused to reflect upon the end of the once-booming category...

    Tick-tock, TIME, tick-tock...

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  5. Re:Upgrading? by ganjadude · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Im not so sure that PC enthusiasts are down, I just think there is a larger audience of PC users today then when it was still a hobby and therefore it seems small. at one point we were the big fish in a small pond, now we are the small fish in a big pond

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  6. end of second era by fermion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The first era of the PC ended with Byte. This was when people actually put computers together, actually understood what the computer was doing, and wasn't obsessed with memory and clock speed unless it actually improved performance. Then, over the past 20 years it simply became what MS Windows machine to buy and how expensive MS Office is. So PC World ending might signal a world in which we are trying to innovative things with computers again, albeit in a much more restrictive environment.

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