hansb@ariel.unm.edu (Hans Bechtel) (11/12/87)
Whatever happened to the BYTE coverage of Amiga BIX articles? I haven't seen it for 3 months! Ouch!!! Hans Bechtel
kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) (11/14/87)
In article <1799@charon.unm.edu> hansb@ariel.UUCP (Hans Bechtel) writes: >Whatever happened to the BYTE coverage of Amiga BIX articles? >I haven't seen it for 3 months! >Ouch!!! [What a spectacular chance to flame BYTE! Can't resist.] The direct excuse was that they had to trim the size of the non-ad parts of the magazine, due to loss of ad revenues. (Hyperglogic napalm squirt gun mode on) In case no one has pointed it out to you, Byte has become almost exclusively the domain of PC/clone articles. The example software is mostly MS-DOS examples, the articles are all about neat tricks for your clone, even the benchmarks are heavily baised toward Intel goods, the latest rumor goes. Worst of all, they ran a reader survey, and found lots of PC/clone owners in their audience, and so have become even more editorially biased toward the PC/cloniverse, presuming, I guess, that is what their readers want to see. Most spectacular is a thirteenth issue each year, devoted to kissing IBM's feet. Total waste of my subscription dollar, the issue goes right in the trash. Now if you were one of the advertisers of Amiga products, or Radio Shack products, or whatever, wouldn't you take the hint you really aren't appreciated, and start looking elsewhere for a place for your ads? Apparently lots of folks have. So, to worsen this feedback loop, they cut out more non-IBM material. It is going to be really tough justifying renewing my Byte subscription when the time comes. I've been with them for six years, and over that time they have gone from concentrating on the leading edge of home computing to concentrating on the market numbers. This is really a shame, because no one's come along to take their place, that I can see. A similar sad fate overtook Dr. Dobbs, which cleaned up its act to the point that it's no fun to read any more. (Last little dribble squirted out, flame dies.) Kent, the man from xanth.
jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow) (11/16/87)
In article <1799@charon.unm.edu> hansb@ariel.UUCP (Hans Bechtel) writes: > >Whatever happened to the BYTE coverage of Amiga BIX articles? > >I haven't seen it for 3 months! > >Ouch!!! > > >Hans Bechtel Well, Hans, Charlie Heath and I are still preparing excerpts of BIX postings from the Amiga conference and submitting them nominally the 15th of the month. (Today's the fifteenth for me if congress can do similar clock tricks... <^_-> ) We BOTH have liberally flamed about BoB no longer being in BYTE. Does no good. TPTB at BYTE are planning on a quarterly(?) (or less frequently) LARGE BoB supplement to BYTE. THere will be several such which are machine specific. There's supposed to be an Amiga one, an IBM one, a Mac one, .... IMHO that is a bad choice on their part. However THEIR "TPTB" types have decreed that there will be a rigid ratio between advertisement and editorial pages. (This is a fixed ratio, not changing as some people think - I am told...) This dictated its removal and this new setup. ANyway - roughly speaking that is what has happened and some suggestion re the plans for BoB. "poof" <#_#> -- <@_@> BIX:jdow INTERNET:jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP:{akgua, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!jdow Remember - A bird in the hand often leaves a sticky deposit. Perhaps it was better you left it in the bush with the other one.
jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow) (11/16/87)
There is a VERY simple solution to this you realize, Kent.
WOULD SOME OF YOU THOUGHTFUL AND ARTICULATE TYPES OUT THERE WRITE SOME
ARTICLES FOR SUBMISSION TO BYTE SO THEY HAVE SOMETHING TO PRINT ABOUT
SOMETHING BESIDES A FLAMING PClone? <SHEESH Do not just sit there and
idly flame, DO SOMETHING!>
They simply cannot print what they do not have, can they?
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Remember - A bird in the hand often leaves a sticky deposit. Perhaps it was
better you left it in the bush with the other one.scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) (11/17/87)
In article <3367@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >In article <1799@charon.unm.edu> hansb@ariel.UUCP (Hans Bechtel) writes: >>Whatever happened to the BYTE coverage of Amiga BIX articles? >(Hyperglogic napalm squirt gun mode on) (reasons for reconsidering your Byte subscription) >(Last little dribble squirted out, flame dies.) Hey, so whatever became of Carl Helmers?? -scott