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Real Shame. Does make me think what kind of business model is needed for this type of publication to survive and thrive? There must be a way ... I would really
by monkeydust 2y ago
Real Shame. Does make me think what kind of business model is needed for this type of publication to survive and thrive? There must be a way ... I would really hope. Would be very curious at to the conversations that happened at Future PLC prior to shutting this asset down. Couldn't find much on companies fillings.
- kevstev 2y agoYeah- I am personally struggling to understand how a website could be successful in 1997 run out of an apartment, but now that the PC and tech industry is many times bigger these sites can't make a go of it. And the headwinds Anand and Ars etc faced... I remember back in the 90s they wouldn't let them into Computex and CES. Interestingly it was just last week that I was looking into building a NAS (Synology is leaning in hard on enshitification lately) and its suprisingly feasible, and I was wondering why no one talks about motherboards anymore, only CPUs/GPUs, and occasionally disks (spinning rust or solid state)- I thought I might have just been mentally ignoring those articles, but they really don't exist anymore. Ars/Anand/Toms had reviews for models once every 6 months or so. Into the graveyard you go with, Aces Hardware, Sharky Extreme, Thresh's Firingsquad, and I am sure I am forgetting others that I used to load up every day but just don't exist anymore.