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Jeez, people! Take a Valium or something!
The uproar over this is just ridiculous. Yes, I can see how folks might see it as a first step toward absorbing more of OS X Hints into Macworld, to the point where it is diluted and no longer the same. But Macworld Editor Jason Snell has posted in this thread twice to explain that it is not the case, and I gotta believe him. Not because I know Jason personally or am a fan of his or anything like that, but he brought up some valid points and I encourage everyone to take a chill pill, come back and re-read his posts. Don't forget that Macworld bought macosxhints.com five years ago. If they were going to do to macosxhints what CNet did to MacFixIt, it would have happened a long time ago! As corporate parents go, Macworld has been very, very good to macosxhints. They have mostly left it alone, and let it continue more or less as a community-driven site, with only a few minor changes to monetize it. He also makes some good points about keeping the site healthy going forward. Nobody is talking big changes yet, but let's face it--Geeklog was fine when this was just a hobby site ran by a dedicated volunteer who was learning OS X and Unix along with the rest of us Mac lifers. But it's not an incredibly robust platform, now is it? It's a real PITA to implement anything that is not in its available templates, requiring so much extra coding that you might as well build a custom site. I'm surprised the site has lasted as long as it has in this framework. I'm not bagging on the Geeklog folks, but it is what it is--it's meant for smaller, lower-traffic sites. And I do believe we're going to have to get more iOS hints flowing through the site, and just generally branch out to where's Apple focus is at these days. Even two years ago, it seems that OS X took up the majority of Apple's development time, but now it's probably split 50/50 between iOS and OS X. This is a good thing. Remember what Steve Jobs said a couple years before he came back to Apple, when asked what he would do if he were running Apple. "I'd milk the Macintosh for all its worth, and then move on to the next big thing." Apple is in that phase now, and while Macs have held their own against the next big thing, the company has changed tremendously. And give Craig a break for the low volume of Insanely Great hints since he's came on board. We're three years into the Leopard era (Snow Leopard's biggest change was extreme optimization of the Intel platform). There's just not a whole lot left to discover about this OS. Jason and Craig, just know that despite all the rage, there's someone out there who is reading what you said on the matter and is taking it at face value. It makes a lot of sense to me, and I trust you are being honest about your future plans for the site, because I do believe if you were going to fold into Macworld proper, it would have happened years ago.
Jeez, people! Take a Valium or something!
Interesting take.
Jeez, people! Take a Valium or something!
Maybe my biggest concern is that I do not have the impression that anybody of the responsible persons has a clear idea where they want to take this. |
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